Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (58th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-522857
- published 4 Oct 2018
- disclosed 4 Oct 2018
Introduced: 4 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-17985 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.