5.5

CVE-2018-9138: gnu binutils Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 5.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-9138DEBIAN-CVE-2018-9138
Published 30-03-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-9138 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in gnu binutils. EPSS estimates a 1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.04%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3
USN-4326-1USN-4336-1USN-4336-2

Timeline

  1. 30-03-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_args, demangle_args, do_arg, and do_type.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.04%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

64%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.04% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.04%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu2 products
  • binutilsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 | < 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3
  • libiberty< 20160215-1ubuntu0.3 | < 20170913-1ubuntu0.1
Debian1 product
  • binutils< 2.32.51.20190707-1
Gnu1 product

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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