| Name | CVE-2018-12934 |
| Description | remember_Ktype in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM). This can occur during execution of cxxfilt. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | ELA-1130-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| binutils (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.25-5+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.28-5+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.31.1-16+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.35.2-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.40-2 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.43.50.20241215-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2.43.50.20241221-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85453
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84950
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23059
binutils not covered by security support
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1910070b298052d7ca8e4024891465824588c1e9 (binutils-2_32)