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CVE-2018-18701
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-10-29T12:29:04.820 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:47:43.020

Summary

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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() 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 products

gnu — binutils

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