Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3
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- published4 Oct 2018
- disclosed4 Oct 2018
Introduced: 4 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-17985 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 binutils to version 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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 problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-17985
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17985
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/