CVE-2018-16403

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16403
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16403.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16403
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (4)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (4)
Published
2018-09-03T19:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-28T08:20:22Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git
Events
Introduced
aa36de0335e3ce12898954985a208f6336731289
Last Affected
aa36de0335e3ce12898954985a208f6336731289
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.173:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0.173"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "0.173"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.173
elfutils-0.*
elfutils-0.173

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16403.json"