VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-9996

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM

EPSS probability1.26%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2018-04-10

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 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.

Weakness classification

CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory