CVE-2018-16402

high-risk
Published 2018-09-03

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.

Do I need to act?

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1.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (10)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Canonical Opensuse Elfutils Project

References (12)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
Exploit https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
Exploit https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal
Exposure 16/34 · Moderate