CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-18701

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

4.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

5.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87675 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-10-29 12:29

Updated : 2020-04-21 10:15

NVD link : CVE-2018-18701

Mitre link : CVE-2018-18701

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-835