Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
0.72% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075260
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed22 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12641  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion. An issue was discovered in arm_pt 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_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.

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