CVE-2018-18700

Name	CVE-2018-18700
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 d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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	vulnerable
	stretch (lts), stretch	2.28-5+deb9u1	vulnerable
	buster, buster (lts)	2.31.1-16+deb10u1	vulnerable
	bullseye	2.35.2-2	fixed
	bookworm	2.40-2	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.43.1-5	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	(unstable)	2.32.51.20190707-1	unimportant

Notes

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681
Fixed by: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=03e51746ed98d9106803f6009ebd71ea670ad3b9
binutils not covered by security support
[wheezy] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)