SB2018101605 - Denial of service in elfutils
Published: October 16, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018101605
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Segmentation fault (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18310)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the dwfl_segment_report_module.c source code file in the libdwfl library due to improper handling of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files. A local attacker can send an ELF file that submits malicious input, execute the eu-stack command, trigger a segmentation fault and cause the affected application to crash.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.