CVE-2018-12698
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 6%
demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.
Products: gnu binutils, canonical ubuntu_linux
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 12 | binutils | 2.32.51.20190707-1 |
| Debian 13 | binutils | 2.32.51.20190707-1 |
| Debian 14 | binutils | 2.32.51.20190707-1 |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | libiberty | 20160215-1ubuntu0.3 |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | binutils | 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3 |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | libiberty | 20170913-1ubuntu0.1 |
| Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS | binutils | no fix |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | binutils | 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 |