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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-18521: elfutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-18521: elfutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/19/2018
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-default-yama-scope
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-libelf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-libs

References

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