Bug 1597853 (CVE-2018-12934)

Summary: CVE-2018-12934 binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, dvlasenk, erik-fedora, fweimer, jakub, klember, ktietz, law, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, yselkowi
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Bug Depends On: 1597854, 1597856, 1597857, 1597858, 1597859, 1599458    
Bug Blocks: 1597855    

Description Laura Pardo 2018-07-03 17:26:42 UTC 
A flaw was found in remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. This allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.


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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763101
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-07-03 17:28:08 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597857]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1597854]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597859]