Vulnerability CVE-2018-9138

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-9138 (CCN-141059)

Assigned:

2018-03-29

Published:

2018-03-29

Updated:

2020-04-21

Summary:

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.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.9 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
3.5 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:U/RC:R)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

2.1 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-674

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-9138

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
gnubinutils-cve20189138-dos(141059)

Source: CCN
Type: Sourceware Bugzilla Bug 23008
Stack Overflow(Stack Exhaustion) in demangle related functions

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-4326-1

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-4336-1

Source: CCN
Type: GNU Binutils Web site
GNU Binutils

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
CVE-2018-9138

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201891380000000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20189138000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20189138000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:201891380000000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20189138000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201891380000000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20189138000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201891380000000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-03-30
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20189138000	V	CVE-2018-9138 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.	2018-03-30

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