CVE-2018-12641

MEDIUM

GNU libiberty 2.30 - Stack Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in arm_pt 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_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23058
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85452
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0072
EPSS Percentile 72.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils 2.30
Published Jun 22, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026