CVE-2018-18521
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-10-19
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
Affected products
- Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Elfutils (Elfutils Project)
- Leap (Opensuse)
- Enterprise Linux Desktop (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Server (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Workstation (Redhat)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/