Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1937100
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed11 Apr 2018
Introduced: 11 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-12698 (opens 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.
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/