Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Jun 22, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-12641

Description

An issue was discovered in arm_pt in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.

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Affected products

GNU/BinutilsOSV2 versions
binutils-2_30, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: binutils-2_30, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …
- (no CPE)range: <= 2.30

Patches

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References

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763099nvdThird Party Advisory
gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01nvd
usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/nvd
usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/nvd

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