CVE-2018-17985 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2018-17985 PUBLISHED

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.

EPSS 0.17% · 38.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.17%

38.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	binutils	0, 2.29.1-12ubuntu1, 2.29.1-10ubuntu1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	libiberty	20141014-1, 20160215-1, 20160215-1ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	libiberty	20170913-1, 0
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	binutils	2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2, 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1, 2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	binutils	2.26-8ubuntu2, 2.26-8ubuntu2.1, 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04

Timeline

Oct 4, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17985 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4326-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17985 third-party-advisory

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