Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-ELFUTILS-10075550
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed18 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8769  (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 elfutils 0.170 has a buffer over-read in the ebl_dynamic_tag_name function of libebl/ebldynamictagname.c because SYMTAB_SHNDX is unsupported.

Note:

The issue was introduced after 0.170 release and fixed before 0.171, not affecting any officially released version of upstream elfutils package.

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