CVE-2018-12641 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in arm_pt in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_arm_hp_template demangle_class_name demangle_fund_type do_type do_arg demangle_args and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763099 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85452 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23058 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5