PublicDateAtUSN: 2018-09-03
Candidate: CVE-2018-16403
PublicDate: 2018-09-03 19:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16403
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4012-1
Description:
 libdw in elfutils 0.173 checks the end of the attributes list incorrectly
 in dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in
 dwarf_hasattr.c, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read and an
 application crash.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23529
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]


Patches_elfutils:
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=6983e59b727458a6c64d9659c85f08218bc4fcda
upstream_elfutils: released (0.175-1)
precise/esm_elfutils: ignored (end of ESM support, was needs-triage)
trusty_elfutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_elfutils: needs-triage
xenial_elfutils: released (0.165-3ubuntu1.2)
esm-infra/xenial_elfutils: released (0.165-3ubuntu1.2)
bionic_elfutils: released (0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1)
cosmic_elfutils: released (0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1)
disco_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1)
eoan_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)
focal_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)
groovy_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)
hirsute_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)
impish_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)
jammy_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)
devel_elfutils: not-affected (0.176-1.1)