Resource Exhaustion Affecting gdb-headless package, versions <0:8.2-6.el8
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GDBHEADLESS-3517853
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed18 Dec 2018
Introduced: 18 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-20657 (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.