CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-9071

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Feb 24, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a stack consumption issue in d_count_templates_scopes in cp-demangle.c after many recursive calls.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
BinutilsGnu2.32 (including)2.32 (including)
BinutilsUbuntubionic*
BinutilsUbuntucosmic*
BinutilsUbuntudisco*
BinutilsUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
BinutilsUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
BinutilsUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
BinutilsUbuntuprecise/esm*
BinutilsUbuntutrusty*
BinutilsUbuntutrusty/esm*
BinutilsUbuntuxenial*
LibibertyUbuntubionic*
LibibertyUbuntucosmic*
LibibertyUbuntudisco*
LibibertyUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
LibibertyUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
LibibertyUbuntutrusty*
LibibertyUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References