CVE-2018-12698

Description

demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104539

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3