CVE-2018-16402 in Ubuntu

CVE-2018-16402

Priority

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.

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16402
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4012-1

Bugs

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528

Assigned-to

mdeslaur

Notes

Package

Source: elfutils (LP Ubuntu Debian)

Upstream:	released (0.175-1)
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin):	needs-triage
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr):	needs-triage
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):	released (0.165-3ubuntu1.2)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):	released (0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa):	not-affected (0.176-1.1)
Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):	not-affected (0.176-1.1)

Patches:

Upstream:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=56b18521fb8d46d40fc090c0de9d11a08bc982fa

More Information

Updated: 2020-07-28 18:49:58 UTC (commit 7b6828437fde0509248708fcdb5b0f7587b85bd1)