Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.58% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-BINUTILS-404220
- published 11 Jul 2018
- disclosed 28 Jun 2018
Introduced: 28 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12934 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
binutils
.
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:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12934
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763101
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-12934
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/