Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075233
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed10 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-9996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value. An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

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