CVE-2018-9138

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-03-27
CWE:
CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1564291: CVE-2018-9138 binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2018-9138 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 3.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 binutils Under investigation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 binutils Under investigation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 binutils Under investigation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bintuils220 Under investigation

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