Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-18701 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.31
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions next_is_type_qual() and cplus_demangle_type() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-2_0-0119_BINUTILS.NASL description An update of the binutils package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 122027 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122027 title Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-2.0-0119 code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2019-2.0-0119. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include('compat.inc'); if (description) { script_id(122027); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2019/02/07"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2018-17794", "CVE-2018-18484", "CVE-2018-18605", "CVE-2018-18606", "CVE-2018-18607", "CVE-2018-18700", "CVE-2018-18701" ); script_name(english:"Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-2.0-0119"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of the binutils package has been released."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-2-119.md"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected Linux packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-18605"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/01/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/01/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:binutils"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 2.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-2.ph2")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4326-1.NASL description It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-16 modified 2020-04-10 plugin id 135398 published 2020-04-10 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135398 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libiberty vulnerabilities (USN-4326-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4326-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(135398); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/04/14"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-12641", "CVE-2018-12697", "CVE-2018-12698", "CVE-2018-12934", "CVE-2018-17794", "CVE-2018-17985", "CVE-2018-18483", "CVE-2018-18484", "CVE-2018-18700", "CVE-2018-18701", "CVE-2018-9138", "CVE-2019-14250", "CVE-2019-9070", "CVE-2019-9071"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4326-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libiberty vulnerabilities (USN-4326-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libiberty-dev package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libiberty-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/03/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/04/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/04/10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(16\.04|18\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"16.04", pkgname:"libiberty-dev", pkgver:"20160215-1ubuntu0.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"libiberty-dev", pkgver:"20170913-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libiberty-dev"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4336-1.NASL description It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-24 plugin id 135966 published 2020-04-24 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135966 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4336-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(135966); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/04/28"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000876", "CVE-2018-10372", "CVE-2018-10373", "CVE-2018-10534", "CVE-2018-10535", "CVE-2018-12641", "CVE-2018-12697", "CVE-2018-12698", "CVE-2018-12699", "CVE-2018-12700", "CVE-2018-12934", "CVE-2018-13033", "CVE-2018-17358", "CVE-2018-17359", "CVE-2018-17360", "CVE-2018-17794", "CVE-2018-17985", "CVE-2018-18309", "CVE-2018-18483", "CVE-2018-18484", "CVE-2018-18605", "CVE-2018-18606", "CVE-2018-18607", "CVE-2018-18700", "CVE-2018-18701", "CVE-2018-19931", "CVE-2018-19932", "CVE-2018-20002", "CVE-2018-20623", "CVE-2018-20651", "CVE-2018-20671", "CVE-2018-8945", "CVE-2018-9138", "CVE-2019-12972", "CVE-2019-14250", "CVE-2019-14444", "CVE-2019-17450", "CVE-2019-17451", "CVE-2019-9070", "CVE-2019-9071", "CVE-2019-9073", "CVE-2019-9074", "CVE-2019-9075", "CVE-2019-9077"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4336-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected binutils and / or binutils-multiarch packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils-multiarch"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/03/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/04/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/04/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(18\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 18.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"binutils", pkgver:"2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"binutils-multiarch", pkgver:"2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils / binutils-multiarch"); }