Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libiberty package, versions <20170913-1ubuntu0.1
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 Oct 2018
- disclosed29 Oct 2018
Introduced: 28 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18700 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 libiberty to version 20170913-1ubuntu0.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libiberty package and not the libiberty 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 vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.