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CVE-2018-20673

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, contains an integer overflow vulnerability (for "Create an array for saving the template argument values") that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by nm.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.31.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106454
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24039
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106454
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24039

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