CVE-2018-9996

Published: 10 April 2018

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.

Priority

Negligible

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Notes

per upstream bug, this is not really an issue

unfixed upstream as of 2020-10-19

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9996
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85304