FKIE_CVE-2018-17985

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-10-04 23:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:46
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu binutils 2.31
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