VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-9138
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.04%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.04%). 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 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.04% probability · 62th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-674
- Affected
- gnu/binutils
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.