cve-2018-18521
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-19 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:15
Severity ?
Summary
Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by eu-ranlib, because a zero sh_entsize is mishandled.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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