CVE-2018-12698

High

Description

demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Binutils
PublishedJun 23, 2018
First seenJun 23, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu binutils2.30—
canonical ubuntu_linux16.04.4—

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