CVE-2018-9996 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-04-10 22:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

GNU Binutils 2.30

2.30

References

103733

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

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