CVE-2018-18701

binutils: infinite recursion in next_is_type_qual and cplus_demangle_type functions in cp-demangle.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · October 21, 2018

Updated · March 27, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils caused by excessive stack consumption in the cp-demangle.c file within GNU libiberty, where an attacker could exploit this flaw by persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, leading to stack exhaustion and causing the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Statement

This vulnerability was rated as LOW severity because it requires the victim to open a specially crafted file, it does not result in system compromise, it may cause the application to crash temporarily, disrupting its normal operation

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