High
Security advisory
A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3530
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 05:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.
osv:CVE-2021-3530
Complete source record
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