Bug 1652723 (CVE-2018-17985) - CVE-2018-17985 binutils: Stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type
Summary: CVE-2018-17985 binutils: Stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demang...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-17985
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1645967 1645968 1650647 1652724 1652725 1654030 1654031
Blocks: 1647427
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Reported: 2018-11-22 17:36 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-10-25 22:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 22:21:05 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-11-22 17:36:06 UTC 
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.

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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-11-22 17:36:46 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1652725]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1652724]
Comment 4 Scott Gayou 2018-11-29 19:55:17 UTC 
This looks like yet another duplicated stack exhaustion flaw in libiberty.
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