Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils (opens in a new tab)
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- published12 Jan 2022
- disclosed18 Mar 2018
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 18 Mar 2018
CVE-2018-8769 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds elfutils 0.170 has a buffer over-read in the ebl_dynamic_tag_name function of libebl/ebldynamictagname.c because SYMTAB_SHNDX is unsupported.
Note:
The issue was introduced after 0.170 release and fixed before 0.171, not affecting any officially released version of upstream elfutils package.