CVE-2018-9138 (NVD)

2018-03-30

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.

Products Binutils
Type Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/