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CVE-2018-8769

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

elfutils 0.170 has a buffer over-read in the ebl_dynamic_tag_name function of libebl/ebldynamictagname.c because SYMTAB_SHNDX is unsupported.

Affected products

• GNU elfutils: 0.170

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22976
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22976

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