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Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.51% (77th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1937100
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 11 Apr 2018
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Introduced: 11 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-12698 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.