Bug 1595419 – CVE-2018-12698 binutils: excessive memory consumption in demangle_template in cplus-dem.c

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Bug 1595419 - (CVE-2018-12698) CVE-2018-12698 binutils: excessive memory consumption in demangle_template in cplus-dem.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-12698 binutils: excessive memory consumption in demangle_template in...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-12698

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1595425 1600233 1600234 1595423 1595424 1595426
Blocks:	1595443
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Reported:	2018-06-26 17:49 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-07-11 17:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 17:49:38 EDT

A flaw was found in demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. This vulnerability allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call.


References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102 	
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454 	
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-26 17:53:53 EDT

Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595425]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1595424]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595423]

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