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CVE-2018-18701
CVE-2018-18701
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.33% · 56.4th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.33%
56.4th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | binutils | 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.6, 2.26-8ubuntu2, 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | binutils | 2.29.1-6ubuntu1, 0, 2.29.1-4ubuntu1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | libiberty | 20141014-1, 0, 20160215-1ubuntu0.2 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | binutils | 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm7, 2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1, 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | libiberty | 0, 20170913-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87675 (nist-nvd)
- USN-4326-1 (circl)
- USN-4336-1 (circl)
Timeline
- Oct 27, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
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- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18701 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-2018-18701 third-party-advisory