CVE-2018-17985

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.3%

Medium (5.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2018-10-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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