CVE-2018-9996
binutils: Stack-overflow in libiberty/cplus-dem.c causes crash
Severity
UnknownRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
Review impact separately from score.
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 · 3.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption