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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-9996

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 binutils

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Debian:13 binutils

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 binutils

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org