CVE-2018-18701

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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

CVSS v3.0

5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile

Published

2018-10-27

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87675

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-18700
• CVE-2018-18703
• CVE-2018-18696
• CVE-2018-18704
• CVE-2018-18695
• CVE-2018-18705