CVE-2018-18521 Information

Description

Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file as demonstrated by eu-ranlib because a zero sh_entsize is mishandled.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786 https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5