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Vulnerability details: VCID-nftu-4pqe-ebgs
Vulnerability ID VCID-nftu-4pqe-ebgs
Aliases CVE-2018-17985
Summary An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplus_demangle_type function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17985.json
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00161 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
epss 0.00237 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
cvssv3 4.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17985
cvssv3 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17985
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17985.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-17985
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17985
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87335
1652723 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652723
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-17985 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17985
USN-4326-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1/
USN-4336-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-17985.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17985
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17985
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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required

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.37593
EPSS Score 0.00161
Published At Sept. 11, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:37:42.500777+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/ 37.0.0