Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libelf-devel-32bit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBELFDEVEL32BIT-2747943
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed13 Jun 2019

Introduced: 13 Jun 2019

CVE-2018-16403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libelf-devel-32bit package and not the libelf-devel-32bit package as distributed by SLES.

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.