Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.2% (58th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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SUSE
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
4.7 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-522857
  • published 4 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 4 Oct 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 cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.