Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Oct 29, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-18701
CVE-2018-18701
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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Affected products
4Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/nvd
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