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CVE-2018-9138

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.29, 2.30

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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