Denial of Service Vulnerability in libiberty's C++ Symbol Demangler Routine

CVE-2017-13716 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The C++ symbol demangler routine in cplus-dem.c in libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a call from the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd).

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