Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting binutils package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-404193
- published10 Apr 2018
- disclosed10 Apr 2018
Introduced: 10 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-9996 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.