Out-of-Bounds Affecting elfutils package, versions [,0.174)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.22% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334931
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade elfutils to version 0.174 or higher.

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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