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Unscored CVE-2018-9996 EUVD-2018-21588GHSA-g8cr-hg2h-9wfr

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…

Published Apr 10, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 binutils No fix yet —
Debian 13 binutils No fix yet —
Debian 12 binutils No fix yet —

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