Denial Of Service (DoS)

binutils:bionic is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The getcount function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as...

CVE-2018-18483

CVE-2018-18483 affects GNU Binutils (libiberty) get_count in cplus-dem.c, distributed with Binutils 2.31. The flaw allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service via a crafted string, due to an integer-overflow result used in a malloc call (as demonstrated by c++filt). Connected sources ...