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CVE-2018-18700

CVE-2018-18700 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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 d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

EPSS 1.69% · 76.2th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.69%
76.2th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSlibiberty0, 20170913-1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSbinutils2.30-7ubuntu1, 2.30-9ubuntu1, 2.30-5ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSbinutils2.24-5ubuntu13, 0, 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSbinutils2.26-5ubuntu1, 2.25.90.20160101-1ubuntu1, 2.25.90.20151211-0ubuntu2
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlibiberty0, 20160215-1, 20160215-1ubuntu0.2

Timeline

  • Oct 27, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 27, 2021 EPSS Score
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