CVE-2018-9996 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Binutils

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedApr 10
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

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 Packages1 packages

▶NVDgnu/binutils2.30

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-g8cr-hg2h-9wfr: An issue was discovered in cplus-dem↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-9996: An issue was discovered in cplus-dem↗2018-04-10
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OSV
CVE-2018-9996: An issue was discovered in cplus-dem↗2018-04-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash↗2018-04-09
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Debian
CVE-2018-9996: binutils - An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU B...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-9996 mingw-binutils: binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash [fedora-all]↗2018-04-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-9996 mingw-binutils: binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash [epel-all]↗2018-04-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-9996 binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash [fedora-all]↗2018-04-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-9996 binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash↗2018-04-13
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CVE-2018-9996 — Uncontrolled Recursion in GNU Binutils | cvebase