{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2018-12-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "libiberty: Memory leak in demangle_template function resulting in a denial of service",
    "id" : "1664708",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1664708"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-400",
  "details" : [ "The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.", "A vulnerability was found in the demangle_template function in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils, where a memory leak could occur, a specially crafted file could cause the application to consume excessive memory, potentially leading to a crash." ],
  "statement" : "This vulnerability is rated as low severity because it results in a memory leak that can cause the application to crash, it may impact performance, it does not pose a significant risk to system.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3352",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "gdb-0:8.2-6.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "binutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gcc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gdb",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "binutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gcc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gdb",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "binutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gcc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gdb",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "binutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gcc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "mingw-binutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20657\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20657" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-20657",
  "csaw" : false
}