Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-BINUTILS-1997136
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed21 Oct 2018
Introduced: 21 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18701 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6 binutils.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.