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CVE-2018-17985

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.31

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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