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CVE-2018-16403
medium
Description
libdw in elfutils 0.173 checks the end of the attributes list incorrectly in dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in dwarf_hasattr.c, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read and an application crash.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6983e59b727458a6c64d9659c85f08218bc4fcda
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23529
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html