CVE-2018-9996

Exp

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

Published: 2018-04-10 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2018-9996 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.33%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2018-9996

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-9996

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.39% 1.33% +0.95%
2 2025-11-21 0.18% 0.39% +0.20%
3 2025-11-18 — 0.18% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-9996

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-9996

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-9996

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2018-9996 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (binutils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-9996
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-9996
suse low CVE-2018-9996 severity low: SUSE including 6 source package names (binutils, binutils-devel, binutils-devel-32bit, binutils-gold, libctf-nobfd0, libctf0), 65 product×package rows across 24 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7, … (24 product lines)): Will Not Fix 65. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-9996/
ubuntu negligible CVE-2018-9996 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (binutils), 9 status rows across 9 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 4, not-affected 4, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9996

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-9996

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gnu binutils 2.30 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-9996

URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103733 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85304 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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