{"id":"CVE-2018-18700","title":"An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31","summary":"An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in c…","severity":"medium","cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-835"],"vendor":"gnu","product":"binutils","affected":["binutils = 2.31"],"published":"2018-10-29","updated":"2026-10-15","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-15T18:17:15.173","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18700","references":[{"url":"https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681","label":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/","label":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/","label":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87681","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-10-15T17:36:13.726943Z"},"epss":0.01686,"epssPercentile":0.76604,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-15T18:23:58.396Z","slug":"CVE-2018-18700","body":"## Overview\n\nAn issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `binutils = 2.31`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":31,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0.3,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}