Out-of-bounds Read Affecting elfutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (57th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-ELFUTILS-322436
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 3 Sep 2018
Introduced: 3 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16403 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
elfutils
.
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.
libdw in elfutils 0.173 checks the end of the attributes list incorrectly in dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in dwarf_hasattr.c, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read and an application crash.