CVE-2018-16402

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3