CVE-2018-12934

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-06-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.30

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763101
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763101
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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