Vulnerability CVE-2018-18521


Published: 2018-10-19

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-369

(Divide By Zero)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Elfutils project -> Elfutils 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.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/

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