CVE-2018-18701
Published: 29 October 2018
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.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
binutils Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(2.32-8ubuntu1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3)
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needs triage
|
|
|
Patches: Upstream: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=03e51746ed98d9106803f6009ebd71ea670ad3b9 |
||
|
libiberty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(20190122-1)
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(20170913-1ubuntu0.1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(20160215-1ubuntu0.3)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
|
|
|
Patches: Upstream: https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=266886 |
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Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | same commit as CVE-2018-12697 to CVE-2018-12700 |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18701
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4326-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian