CVE-2018-18700
binutils: Recursive Stack Overflow within function d_name, d_encoding, and d_local_name in cp-demangle.c
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · October 22, 2018
Updated · November 21, 2025
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 d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Statement
Red Hat has determined this flaw to be of low impact as successful exploitation results in a crash (denial of service) of the application utilizing the binutils library and does not impact system-wide stability or lead to arbitrary code execution or memory corruption.
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 · 4.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption