CVE-2018-12698
CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
EPSS Score
6.4 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Vendor advisories
binutils: excessive memory consumption in demangle_template in cplus-dem.c
binutils as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 · binutils220 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 · binutils as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Description
demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.
Technical details
- Published
- 2018-06-23
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