Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.2% (58th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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SUSE
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1938894
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 17 Oct 2018

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. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.