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CVE-2018-12641 (GCVE-0-2018-12641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-22 12:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:38
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Summary
An issue was discovered in arm_pt 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_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23058 x_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutil… x_refsource_MISC
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85452 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2018-06-22 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.