vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-16403: Low: elfutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2019:2197)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 3, 2018
Added
Aug 7, 2019
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-elfutilsredhat-upgrade-elfutils-debuginforedhat-upgrade-elfutils-default-yama-scoperedhat-upgrade-elfutils-develredhat-upgrade-elfutils-devel-staticredhat-upgrade-elfutils-libelfredhat-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-develredhat-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel-staticredhat-upgrade-elfutils-libs
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