CVE-2018-18701medium
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Description
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
References
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87675
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-10-29
Updated: 2020-04-21
Type: CWE-835
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 1.8
Severity: MEDIUM
Vulnerable Software
Configuration 1
OR
Tenable Plugins
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151919 | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-2) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | critical |
| 135966 | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | critical |
| 135398 | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libiberty vulnerabilities (USN-4326-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | high |
| 122027 | Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-2.0-0119 | Nessus | PhotonOS Local Security Checks | medium |