Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403962
  • published30 Mar 2018
  • disclosed30 Mar 2018

Introduced: 30 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-9138  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable 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.