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CVE-2018-18520
medium
Description
An Invalid Memory Address Dereference exists in the function elf_end in libelf in elfutils through v0.174. Although eu-size is intended to support ar files inside ar files, handle_ar in size.c closes the outer ar file before handling all inner entries. The vulnerability allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00057.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html