CVE-2018-12934

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Denial of Service via Excessive Memory Consumption in cplus-dem.c

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453
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 7.5
EPSS 0.0070
EPSS Percentile 72.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils 2.30
Published Jun 28, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026