vulnerability

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 19, 2018
Added
Jun 10, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-elfutilsubuntu-pro-upgrade-libasm1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libdw1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libelf1
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