Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils (opens in a new tab)
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- published2 Jan 2019
- disclosed2 Jan 2019
Introduced: 2 Jan 2019
CVE-2018-20657 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian.
The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.