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LIN6-15012 : Security Advisory - elfutils - CVE-2018-16403

Created: Sep 16, 2018    Updated: Mar 8, 2020
Resolved Date: Mar 12, 2019
Found In Version: 6.0.0.37
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

Description

libdw in elfutils 0.173 checks the end of the attributes list incorrectly in dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in dwarf_hasattr.c, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read and an application crash.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16403
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