Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.12% (45th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-515355
  • published 30 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 30 Mar 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 binutils to version 2.32.51.20190707-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.