CVE-2018-18701

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-18701
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-10-29T12:29:04
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-04-21T22:15:14
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-835 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87675 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18701
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18701
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:43:54 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 13:51:21 2018-10-29T12:29Z 2018-10-29T12:29:04 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 13:51:21 2020-04-21T22:15:14 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 13:51:21 Modified Vulnerability Status updated