Double Free Affecting elfutils-libelf package, versions <0:0.176-2.amzn2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.97% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-ELFUTILSLIBELF-1675404
- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 3 Sep 2018
Introduced: 3 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-16402 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.
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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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