CVE-2018-18701

Description

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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.442

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
library of utility functions used by GNU programs (USN-4326-1) libiberty-dev_20160215-1ubuntu0.3_i386.deb	Linux
library of utility functions used by GNU programs (USN-4326-1) libiberty-dev_20160215-1ubuntu0.3_amd64.deb	Linux
library of utility functions used by GNU programs (USN-4326-1) libiberty-dev_20170913-1ubuntu0.1_i386.deb	Linux
library of utility functions used by GNU programs (USN-4326-1) libiberty-dev_20170913-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb	Linux
GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities (USN-4336-1) binutils_2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3_i386.deb	Linux
GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities (USN-4336-1) binutils_2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3_amd64.deb	Linux
GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities (USN-4336-1) binutils-multiarch_2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3_i386.deb	Linux
GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities (USN-4336-1) binutils-multiarch_2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234