CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-18521
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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-369
Description
Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by eu-ranlib, because a zero sh_entsize is mishandled.
Affected configurations
• elfutils project elfutils 0.174
• debian debian linux 8.0
• 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-369 Divide By Zero 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html Mailing List, Patch, 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/ Third Party Advisory