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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18521): elfutils vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18521): elfutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/19/2018
Created
06/12/2019
Added
06/10/2019
Modified
08/31/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-elfutils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libasm1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdw1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libelf1

References

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