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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.2% (59th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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SUSE
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
4.7 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1938762
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 17 Sep 2018
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Introduced: 17 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17985 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 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.

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.