cve-2018-16403
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-03 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23529Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6983e59b727458a6c64d9659c85f08218bc4fcda
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
Impacted products
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