CVE-2018-9996: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm, demangle_integral_value, and demangle_expression.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.30 only

Published 2018-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.