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CVE-2018-18521

Public on 2018-10-19
Modified on 2019-10-24
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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core elfutils 2019-10-21 18:01 ALAS2-2019-1337

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P