CVE-2018-17985

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-10-04

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/