Out-of-bounds read in elfutils - CVE-2018-16062

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Out-of-bounds read in elfutils - CVE-2018-16062

Published: August 29, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31220
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16062
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in dwarf_getaranges in dwarf_getaranges.c in libdw in elfutils before 2018-08-18. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file.


Affected software

elfutils
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Storage
Ubuntu
Opensuse
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
openSUSE Leap
Fedora
elfutils (Ubuntu package)
libasm1 (Ubuntu package)
libdw1 (Ubuntu package)
libelf1 (Ubuntu package)
elfutils
elfutils (Red Hat package)
libasm-devel
elfutils-lang
libelf1-32bit-debuginfo
libelf1-32bit
libelf-devel-32bit
libebl-plugins-32bit-debuginfo
libebl-plugins-32bit
libdw1-32bit-debuginfo
libdw1-32bit
libasm1-32bit-debuginfo
libasm1-32bit
libelf1-debuginfo
libelf1
libelf-devel
libebl-plugins-debuginfo
libebl-plugins
libebl-devel
elfutils-debuginfo
libdw1-debuginfo
libdw1
libdw-devel
libasm1-debuginfo
libasm1
elfutils-debugsource
libdwarves-devel-32bit
libdwarves1-32bit-debuginfo
libdwarves1-32bit
dwarves
libdwarves1-debuginfo
libdwarves1
libdwarves-devel
dwarves-debugsource
dwarves-debuginfo
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16062

Update to version 0.174.

elfutils - update to 0.174
elfutils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
libasm1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
libdw1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
libelf1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
elfutils - addressed in versions 0.174-1.fc28, 0.174-1.fc29
elfutils (Red Hat package) - update to 0.176-2.el7
libasm-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils-lang - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf-devel-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils-debugsource - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdwarves-devel-32bit - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-32bit - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
dwarves - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1 - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves-devel - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
dwarves-debugsource - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
dwarves-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 2.10.61
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 3.0.17, 4.0.9
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 3.0.17, 4.0.9

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