CVE-2018-18483

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.

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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105689
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87602
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23767
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105689
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87602
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23767

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