VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-17794
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.87%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.87%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.87% probability · 79th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- gnu/binutils
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87350Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87350Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
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