Double Free Affecting elfutils package, versions <0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.97% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-ELFUTILS-349240
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 3 Sep 2018
Introduced: 3 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16402 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
elfutils
to version 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:18.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
libelf/elf_end.c in elfutils 0.173 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because it tries to decompress twice.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16402
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16402
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- 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://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E