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CVE-2018-20673

Updated on 04 Jan 2019

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, contains an integer overflow vulnerability (for “Create an array for saving the template argument values”) that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by nm.

Details

Affected product:
CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , Debian 10 ELS
Affected packages:
binutils @ 2.31.1 (+4 more)
The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, contains an integer overflow vulnerability (for “Create an array for saving the template argument values”) that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by nm.

Fixes