Out-of-bounds Read Affecting elfutils package, versions <0.168-1+deb9u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.57% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-ELFUTILS-322416
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 29 Aug 2018
Introduced: 29 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-16062 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
elfutils
to version 0.168-1+deb9u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils
package and not the elfutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16062
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23541
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=29e31978ba51c1051743a503ee325b5ebc03d7e9
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16062
- 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