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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-18521: Security patch for elfutils (ALAS-2019-1337)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-18521: Security patch for elfutils (ALAS-2019-1337)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/19/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-default-yama-scope
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-devel-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libelf
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libs

References

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