Buffer Overflow Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368396
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18484  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.

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