UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12698

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12698

    Published: 23 Jun 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-12698

    Summary:

    Details: demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12698, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4326-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12698

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm8?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1
    2.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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