Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.51% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1937100
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 11 Apr 2018
Introduced: 11 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-12698 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104539
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12698
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/