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Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1939045
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 21 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 21 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18701 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 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 vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.