CVE-2018-16402

Summary

CVECVE-2018-16402
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-03 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:53:00 UTC
Descriptionlibelf/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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Elfutils Project Elfutils 0.173 All All All
Application Elfutils Project Elfutils 0.173 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1590-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2802-1] elfutils security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
23528 – When executing ./eu-nm or ./eu-readelf -aAdehIlnrsSVcp -w, AddressSanitizer catch a double-free crash. MISC sourceware.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-4012-1: elfutils vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178867 Debian Security Update for elfutils (DLA 2802-1)
  • 377460 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for elfutils (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0059)
  • 671122 EulerOS Security Update for elfutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-2141)
  • 752414 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for dwarves and elfutils (SUSE-SU-2022:2614-1)

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