Security advisory

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  "id": "3d51c903f35f51e92d7d6cd120a41113fc67f6eb731f996eeefb3096b06a1977",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12641",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-12641",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in arm_pt 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_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-12641",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-12641",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-12641"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.30"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.30"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.30",
            "binutils-2_30"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12641.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.088491214Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075",
        "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1763099",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01",
        "https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85452",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23058"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-12641",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430178,
  "published_at": "2018-06-22T12:29:00.21+00:00"
}