CVE-2018-17985

Description

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.

References

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

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

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3