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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18700

DEBIAN-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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12binutils0, 0, 0
Debian:13binutils0, 0, 0
Debian:11binutils0, 0, 0
Debian:14binutils0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Oct 29, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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