{"id":"CVE-2018-9138","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-11T18:11:34.393254Z","published":"2018-03-30T08:29:00.557Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830"},{"last_affected":"8db5daf9efe8a6174d3b10ac7bba8c178836e9ce"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.29"},{"last_affected":"2.30"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD"}}],"versions":["binutils-2_29","binutils-2_30","gdb-4_18-branchpoint","gdb-7.10-branchpoint","gdb-7.11-branchpoint","gdb-7.12-branchpoint","gdb-7.7-branchpoint","gdb-7.8-branchpoint","gdb-7.9-branchpoint","gdb-8.0-branchpoint","gdb-8.1-branchpoint","gdb_5_2-branchpoint","gdb_5_3-branchpoint","gdb_6_0-branchpoint","gdb_6_1-branchpoint","gdb_6_2-branchpoint","gdb_6_3-branchpoint","gdb_6_4-branchpoint","gdb_6_5-branchpoint","gdb_6_6-branchpoint","gdb_6_7-branchpoint","gdb_6_8-branchpoint","gdb_7_0-branchpoint","gdb_7_1-branchpoint","gdb_7_2-branchpoint","gdb_7_3-branchpoint","gdb_7_4-branchpoint","gdb_7_5-branchpoint","gdb_7_6-branchpoint","users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2016q4","users/ARM/embedded-binutils-master-2017q4","users/ARM/embedded-gdb-master-2017q4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9138.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}