Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils-debuginfo package, versions <0:2.29.1-29.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.97% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-BINUTILSDEBUGINFO-1676607
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed22 Jun 2018

Introduced: 22 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12641  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 binutils-debuginfo to version 0:2.29.1-29.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1358.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-debuginfo package and not the binutils-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.