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CVE-2018-9996

binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · April 9, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

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.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security determined that this flaw was not a security vulnerability. See the Bugzilla link for more details.

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 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption