Bug 1646535 (CVE-2018-18700)

Summary: CVE-2018-18700 binutils: Recursive Stack Overflow within function d_name, d_encoding, and d_local_name in cp-demangle.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abhgupta, dbaker, dvlasenk, erik-fedora, fweimer, jakub, jokerman, kanderso, klember, mcermak, mnewsome, mpolacek, nickc, ohudlick, rjones, sthangav, trankin, virt-maint
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Bug Depends On: 1645967, 1645968, 1646536, 1646537, 1646538, 1646539, 1650647, 1654030, 1654031    
Bug Blocks: 1647427    

Description Laura Pardo 2018-11-05 16:12:38 UTC 
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file. 


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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-11-05 16:14:00 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1646536]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1646537]
Comment 3 Scott Gayou 2018-11-27 21:56:19 UTC 
Potentially a dupe of CVE-2018-18484, or at least the same root cause.