CVE-2018-18701
MEDIUMGNU Binutils - Infinite Loop
Title source: ruleDescription
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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0044
EPSS Percentile
63.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Classification
CWE
CWE-835
Status
published
Affected Products (1)
gnu/binutils
Timeline
Published
Oct 29, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026