An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from when called from iterate_demangle_function.
Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en cplus-dem.c en GNU libiberty, tal y como se distribuye en GNU Binutils 2.31. Hay una desreferencia de puntero NULL enwork_stuff_copy_to_from al ser llamado desde iterate_demangle_function.
USN-4336-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in GNU binutils. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.
