Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libiberty  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-LIBIBERTY-649959
  • published18 Oct 2018
  • disclosed18 Oct 2018

Introduced: 18 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

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

The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.