CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16402
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• elfutils project elfutils 0.173
• debian debian linux 9.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/ Third Party Advisory