CVE-2018-12698
N/A
Published: June 23, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:38 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxBinutils
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
Description
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Remediation
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References (7)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104539x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo
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