SB2022011413 - Denial of service in GNU GCC 



SB2022011413 - Denial of service in GNU GCC

Published: January 14, 2022 Updated: November 15, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022011413
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-46195)

The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in the libiberty/rust-demangle.c component. An attacker with ability to pass specially crafted input to the GCC application can consume excessive CPU and memory resources and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.