Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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1.04% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075265
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed30 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-9138  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

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