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Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Oct 29, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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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Affected products

5
  • GNU/BinutilsOSV3 versions
    binutils-2_31, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …+ 2 more
    • (no CPE)range: binutils-2_31, gdb-4_18-branchpoint, gdb-7.10-branchpoint, …
    • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <=2.31
  • Ubuntu/Ubuntullm-fuzzy
    Range: unknown
  • GNU/Libibertyllm-fuzzy
    Range: <=2.31

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