CVE-2018-12934 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Binutils
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 28
Latest updateMay 13
Description
remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
5Debian▶
CVE-2018-12934: binutils - remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2...↗2018
💬Community
4Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12934 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c [fedora-all]↗2018-07-03
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12934 mingw-binutils: binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c [epel-all]↗2018-07-03
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12934 mingw-binutils: binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c [fedora-all]↗2018-07-03
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-12934 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c↗2018-07-03