Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201891380000000
Revision Date:2018-03-30Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-9138
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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