CVE-2018-18484

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-674

Description

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.

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/105693
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87636
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/105693
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87636
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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