Resource exhaustion in Binutils - CVE-2018-12934
Published: July 5, 2018 / Updated: August 1, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13596
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12934
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the remember_Ktype function defined in the cplus-dem.c source code file, distributed as a component of binutils due to boundary error when executing cxxfiltto perform C++ symbol demangling operations. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a file that submits malicious input, cause the system to consume excessive memory resources, resulting in an out-of-memory error and leading to a DoS condition.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-12934
Install updates from vendor's website.