CVE-2018-18700
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-10-29
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Affected products
References
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
