Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-BINUTILS-349160
- published 18 Oct 2018
- disclosed 18 Oct 2018
Introduced: 18 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18484 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
binutils
to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-18484
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18484
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87636
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105693
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/