Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368379
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12698  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.32 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

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