Out-of-bounds Read Affecting elfutils package, versions [,0.174)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.93% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334935
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-16062  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Read dwarf_getaranges in dwarf_getaranges.c in libdw in elfutils before 2018-08-18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file.

CVSS Scores

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