Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Apr 10, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-9996

Description

An issue was discovered 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_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

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
GNU/Libibertyllm-fuzzy
Range: =2.30

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/103733nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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