Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils-devel package, versions <0:2.27-41.base.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILSDEVEL-2142394
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Apr 2018

Introduced: 13 Apr 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 binutils-devel to version 0:2.27-41.base.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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.