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CVE-2018-18700
n/a n/a — An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L N R U N N H 5.5 .0169 76.7 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
n/a n/a – —
TIMELINE
Oct 27 Reserved by mitre
Oct 27 Published (CNA: mitre)
Oct 15 ENRICHED — CVE-2018-18700. Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD.
Oct 15 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2018-18700. Public exploit reference added.
Description
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 d_name(), d_encoding(), and d_local_name() in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via an ELF file, as demonstrated by nm.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 4 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| October 27, 2018 | Reserved | Reserved by mitre |
| October 27, 2018 | Published | Published (CNA: mitre) |
| October 15, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2018-18700. Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD. |
| October 15, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2018-18700. Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| n/a | n/a | — | n/a | — |
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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2018-18700 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Monday, October 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.
