Out-of-Bounds Affecting elfutils package, versions [,0.175)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334925
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade elfutils to version 0.175 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl in elfutils through v0.174. The vulnerability allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by consider_notes.

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