Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-17985
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 57.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/