Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018187000000000
Revision Date:2018-10-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-18700 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.
Description:An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-18700
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND binutils: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
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