CVE-2018-18521
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.8%
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.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 5.5 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 1.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 78th percentile
- Published
- 2018-10-19
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1