Out-of-bounds Read Affecting elfutils-libelf package, versions <0:0.176-2.amzn2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.57% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-ELFUTILSLIBELF-1675474
- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 29 Aug 2018
Introduced: 29 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-16062 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
elfutils-libelf
to version 0:0.176-2.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1337
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils-libelf
package and not the elfutils-libelf
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
dwarf_getaranges in dwarf_getaranges.c in libdw in elfutils before 2018-08-18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16062
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23541
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=29e31978ba51c1051743a503ee325b5ebc03d7e9
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=29e31978ba51c1051743a503ee325b5ebc03d7e9