CVE-2018-18700

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.

Date published : 2018-10-27

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/