CVE-2018-18700 - An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Ther

CVE-2018-18700

Summary

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.

References

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	4.3 (as of 21-04-2020 - 22:15)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-835

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

misc	https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
ubuntu	USN-4326-1 USN-4336-1

Last major update

21-04-2020 - 22:15

Published

29-10-2018 - 12:29

Last modified

21-04-2020 - 22:15