Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-BINUTILS-345703
  • published10 Apr 2018
  • disclosed10 Apr 2018

Introduced: 10 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-9996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.