Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (59th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1938762
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 17 Sep 2018
Introduced: 17 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17985 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.
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17985
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/