CVE-2018-18700

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-10-29 · updated 2026-10-15
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.31

References

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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