CVE-2018-9138: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only; version 2.30 only

Published 2018-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.