Double Free Affecting dwarves package, versions <1.22-150300.7.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-DWARVES-2965188
  • published2 Aug 2022
  • disclosed1 Aug 2022

Introduced: 1 Aug 2022

CVE-2018-16402  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 dwarves to version 1.22-150300.7.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dwarves package and not the dwarves package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 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.

CVSS Scores

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