Security Advisory

CVE-2018-18483

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-10-18 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 11:08:21
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.