Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-1950480
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 18 Feb 2019

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 GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a stack consumption issue in d_count_templates_scopes in cp-demangle.c after many recursive calls.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High