Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.08% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-BINUTILS-349432
  • published22 Jun 2018
  • disclosed22 Jun 2018

Introduced: 22 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12641  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (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 arm_pt 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_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.