CVE-2018-18483

The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Events

Introduced

af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813

Last affected

af127c216949509e57ab2a28cc56c44e4e548813

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.31"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.31"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*

2.31

Other

binutils-2_31

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-18483.json"