Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability in GNU libiberty's C++ Demangling Functions

Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability in GNU libiberty's C++ Demangling Functions

CVE-2018-18484 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.

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