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CVE-2018-16062

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

dwarf_getaranges in dwarf_getaranges.c in libdw in elfutils before 2018-08-18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• GNU elfutils: before 0.174 — fixed in 0.174
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU elfutils 0.174. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23541
• https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=29e31978ba51c1051743a503ee325b5ebc03d7e9
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
• 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/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23541

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