CVE-2018-17985 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Binutils

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling13 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedOct 4
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.32.51.20190707-1+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.31

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-gcp9-387f-vxqg: An issue was discovered in cp-demangle↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-17985: An issue was discovered in cp-demangle↗2018-10-04
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CVEList
CVE-2018-17985: An issue was discovered in cp-demangle↗2018-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21
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Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2020-04-22
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Ubuntu
libiberty vulnerabilities↗2020-04-08
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Red Hat
binutils: Stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type↗2018-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2018-17985: binutils - An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17985 mingw-binutils: binutils: Stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type [epel-all]↗2018-11-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17985 binutils: Stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type [fedora-all]↗2018-11-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17985 binutils: Stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type↗2018-11-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17794 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in libiberty/cplus-dem.c:work_stuff_copy_to_from() via crafted input↗2018-10-02
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