CVE-2018-16402

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux: 9.0
GNU elfutils: 0.173
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528
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.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/

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