CVE-2018-18700An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.
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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
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- Not given
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 15, 2026
Affected products
gnu binutils gnu:binutils | 2.31 | NVD |
References
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681x-refsource-misc, exploit, issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/vendor-advisory, x-refsource-ubuntu
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/vendor-advisory, x-refsource-ubuntu
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