Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
1.12% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-ELFUTILS-10075546
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed3 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds 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.

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