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CVE-2018-18700

N/A
Published: October 27, 2018 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 06:17 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorBinutilsLibiberty

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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 d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835

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