Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2018-12698
Published: June 26, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13472
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12698
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to resource exhaustion in the demangle_template component, as defined in the cplus-dem.c source code file in the GNU libiberty library, when the component processes a Create an array for saving the template argument values XNEWVEC call. A local attacker can execute the objdump command, consume an excessive amount of memory and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-12698
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