5.5med
CVE-2018-18700
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.
Published 8 y ago · modified 24 d ago · JSON
CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.7%
percentile 77%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
CISA SSVC assessment
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 24 d ago
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.69% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
References
- gcc.gnu.org /bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- usn.ubuntu.com /4326-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
- usn.ubuntu.com /4336-1/ · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-18700
- NVD: CVE-2018-18700
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