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CVE-2018-18484

binutils: Stack exhaustion in cp-demangle.c allows for denial of service

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · October 17, 2018

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.

Statement

Red Hat has determined this vulnerability is of low impact as the result of successful exploitation is a crash in the application utilizing libiberty's cp-demangler. There is no direct risk of code execution, privilege escalation, or system-wide instability.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption