Resource Management Errors Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368474
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-9138  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

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