Divide By Zero Affecting elfutils package, versions <0.168-1+deb9u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.32% (71st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-ELFUTILS-322424
- published 19 Oct 2018
- disclosed 19 Oct 2018
Introduced: 19 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18521 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.
Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by eu-ranlib, because a zero sh_entsize is mishandled.