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CVE-2018-17794 (GCVE-0-2018-17794)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-30 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:54
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Summary
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87350 x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2018-09-30 00:00
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