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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-10-27T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:16:00.391Z

Reserved: 2018-10-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-18701

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-29T12:29:04.820

Modified: 2020-04-21T22:15:14.023

Link: CVE-2018-18701

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-10-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18701 - Bugzilla