CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16403
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• elfutils project elfutils 0.173
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197 access.redhat.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23529 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6983e59b727458a6c64d9659c85f08218bc4fcda sourceware.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197 access.redhat.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23529 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6983e59b727458a6c64d9659c85f08218bc4fcda sourceware.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/ usn.ubuntu.com