Excessive Memory Consumption Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.30

Excessive Memory Consumption Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.30

CVE-2018-12934 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt.

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