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demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.
- Products
- binutils
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.32.51.20190707-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12698
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
demangle_template in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption (aka OOM) during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12698
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.32.51.20190707-1
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.32.51.20190707-1
binutils
Fixed versions: 2.32.51.20190707-1
Complete source record
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