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CVE-2018-17985
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-10-04T23:29:00.807 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:46:38.960

Summary

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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