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CVE-2018-9996

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

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

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.30

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103733
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85304
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103733
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85304

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