Out-of-bounds read in elfutils - CVE-2018-16062
Published: August 29, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31220
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16062
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Sourceware
Affected software:
elfutils
elfutils
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16062
Update to version 0.174.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23541
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=29e31978ba51c1051743a503ee325b5ebc03d7e9
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/