CVE-2018-18700

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 d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.

CVSS 3.0

5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-835

Published

2018-10-29

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gnu:binutils

References

• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
• https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/

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