CVE-2018-18483: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_count function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by c++filt.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.31 only

Published 2018-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.