suse · CVE-2018-20657

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 14:19:47 UTC Updated: 2025-04-07 23:49:17 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-20657 severity low: SUSE including 10 source package names (binutils, binutils-devel, …), 67 product×package rows across 24 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7, … (24 product lines)): Known Not Affected 63, Fixed 4.

Description:

The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.

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