CVE-2018-17794

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.9%

Medium (6.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2018-09-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87350
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87350
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/

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