Vulnerability CVE-2018-12700
Published: 2018-06-23   Modified: 2018-06-24

Description:
A Stack Exhaustion issue was discovered in debug_write_type in debug.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 because of DEBUG_KIND_INDIRECT infinite recursion.

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Binutils 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104541
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763102
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85454
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23057
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