Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018187010000000
Revision Date:2018-10-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-18701 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - 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 next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() 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-2018-18701
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND binutils package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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