5.5med
CVE-2018-9996
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30.
Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.3%
percentile 70%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.26% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% 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-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
References
- gcc.gnu.org /bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85304 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- securityfocus.com /bid/103733 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-9996
- NVD: CVE-2018-9996
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