VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-18701

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.69%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-10-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-835

Primary references