CVE-2018-12934

NameCVE-2018-12934
Descriptionremember_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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
binutils (PTS)bullseye2.35.2-2fixed
bookworm2.40-2fixed
sid, trixie2.43.1-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
binutilssource(unstable)2.32.51.20190707-1unimportant

Notes

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84950
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059
binutils not covered by security support
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1910070b298052d7ca8e4024891465824588c1e9 (binutils-2_32)

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