| Name | CVE-2018-9138 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
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 |
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008
binutils not covered by security support