Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.44% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403319
- published 2 Jan 2019
- disclosed 2 Jan 2019
Introduced: 2 Jan 2019
CVE-2018-20657 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
The Debian
security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.