CVE-2018-16402

CWE-415CWE-416 — Use After Free9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Canonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian LinuxElfutils Project Elfutils+4 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 3
Latest updateMay 13

Description

libelf/elf_end.c in elfutils 0.173 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because it tries to decompress twice.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages6 packages

▶Debianelfutils< 0.175-1+3
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-c337-vg7c-wfqh: libelf/elf_end↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-16402: libelf/elf_end↗2018-09-03
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CVEList
CVE-2018-16402: libelf/elf_end↗2018-09-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
elfutils vulnerabilities↗2019-06-10
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Red Hat
elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections in crafted ELF causes crash↗2018-08-15
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Debian
CVE-2018-16402: elfutils - libelf/elf_end.c in elfutils 0.173 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16402 elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections in crafted ELF causes crash [fedora-all]↗2018-09-04
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16402 elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections in crafted ELF causes crash↗2018-09-04
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