CVE-2018-18700
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2018-18700 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2018-10-29 12:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2020-04-21 22:15:00 UTC |
| 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 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 And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-835
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| USN-4326-1: libiberty vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | UBUNTU | usn.ubuntu.com | |
| USN-4336-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | UBUNTU | usn.ubuntu.com | |
| 87681 – Recursive Stack Overflow within function d_name, d_encoding, and d_local_name in cp-demangle.c, as demonstrated by "nm -C" | MISC | gcc.gnu.org | Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
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