PT-2018-18624 · Red Hat+1 · Elfutils+1

Probefuzzer · Published 2018-03-18 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-8769

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions elfutils version 0.170

Description The issue is related to a buffer over-read in the ebl dynamic tag name function, located in the libebl/ebldynamictagname.c file. This occurs because SYMTAB SHNDX is unsupported.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.170, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1880

CVE-2018-8769

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Elfutils

References · 6

• 🔥 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22976 · Exploit
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-1880 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8769 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8769 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8769 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2018-8769 · Note