Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
6.2% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075203
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed23 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12698  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

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