UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9138

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9138

    Published: 30 Mar 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-9138

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9138, 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-2018-9138

    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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