Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2018-18700
CVE-2018-18700
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.
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3- usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
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