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Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting binutils package, versions *

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.12% (45th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-BINUTILS-403961
  • published 30 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 30 Mar 2018
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Introduced: 30 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-9138 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-674 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:10 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.