CVE-2018-12698

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-06-23 23:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

GNU Binutils 2.30

2.30

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04.4

16.04.4

References

104539

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201908-01

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

USN-4326-1

USN-4336-1

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