CVE-2018-18310

CWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read11 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 73.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Elfutils Project ElfutilsCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 15
Latest updateAug 30

Description

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl in elfutils through v0.174. The vulnerability allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by consider_notes.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages7 packages

▶Debianelfutils< 0.175-1+3
▶Ubuntuelfutils< 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1+3
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
elfutils vulnerabilities↗2023-08-30
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GHSA
GHSA-h443-vvj7-wc74: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-18310: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module↗2018-10-15
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OSV
CVE-2018-18310: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module↗2018-10-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
elfutils vulnerabilities↗2023-08-30
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Ubuntu
elfutils vulnerabilities↗2019-06-10
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Red Hat
elfutils: invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl↗2018-10-10
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Debian
CVE-2018-18310: elfutils - An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_modu...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18310 elfutils: invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl [fedora-all]↗2018-10-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18310 elfutils: invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl↗2018-10-24
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