Resource Exhaustion Affecting gdb-headless package, versions <0:8.2-6.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.04% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GDBHEADLESS-1384762
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Dec 2018

Introduced: 18 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20657  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 gdb-headless to version 0:8.2-6.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3352.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gdb-headless package and not the gdb-headless package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.