Resource Exhaustion Affecting mingw-binutils-generic package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGWBINUTILSGENERIC-1328265
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Oct 2018

Introduced: 21 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18701  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 mingw-binutils-generic.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.