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CVE-2018-9138

Published: 30 March 2018

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
same libiberty commit as CVE-2018-12641

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
binutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic
Released (2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
eoan Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
focal Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
groovy Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
impish Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
jammy Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
lunar Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
mantic Not vulnerable
(2.32-7ubuntu4)
trusty Needed

upstream
Released (2.32)
xenial
Released (2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=af03af8f55f2536b6e20928e6b1fa0324a5f3d6e
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=69799d67e8872dcd3feee81ed2ff0fc47beb52d7

libiberty
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic
Released (20170913-1ubuntu0.1)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
focal Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
groovy Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
impish Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(20190122-1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (20190122-1)
xenial
Released (20160215-1ubuntu0.3)
Patches:


upstream: https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=266886

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H