Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Sep 30, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-17794

Description

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.

Affected products

GNU/BinutilsOSV2 versions
binutils-2_31, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: binutils-2_31, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …
- (no CPE)range: =2.31

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/nvd
usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/nvd

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