Heap-based Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in GNU libiberty

CVE-2018-20712 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function d_expression_1 in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by c++filt.

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