CVE-2018-18484: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.31 only

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