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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-16402

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CVE-2018-16402

elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections in crafted ELF causes crash

Published Modified CWE 415
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat4.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (low), Amazon (low), Oracle (low), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0elfutils0.169-2.ph1
Photon OS 2.0elfutils0.169-3.ph2
alpine 3.12elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.13elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.14elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.15elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.16elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.17elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.18elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.19elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.20elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.21elfutils0.174-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0elfutils0.169-2.ph1
Photon OS 2.0elfutils0.169-3.ph2
alpine 3.12elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.13elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.14elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.15elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.16elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.17elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.18elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.19elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.20elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.21elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.22elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.23elfutils0.174-r0
alpine 3.24elfutils0.174-r0
alpine edgeelfutils0.174-r0
amazon linux 2elfutils0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-debuginfo0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-default-yama-scope0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-devel0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-devel-static0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-libelf0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-libelf-devel0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-libelf-devel-static0.176-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2elfutils-libs0.176-2.amzn2
debian 11elfutils0.175-1
debian 12elfutils0.175-1
debian 13elfutils0.175-1
debian 14elfutils0.175-1
debian 9elfutils0.168-1+deb9u1
echoelfutils0.175-1
Oracle Linux 7elfutils0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-default-yama-scope0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-devel0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-devel-static0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-libelf0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-libelf-devel0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-libelf-devel-static0.176-2.el7
Oracle Linux 7elfutils-libs0.176-2.el7
root.io debian 12rootio-elfutils0.175-1
ubuntu 16.04elfutils0.165-3ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.04-ESMelfutils0.165-3ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 18.04elfutils0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMelfutils0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.10elfutils0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1

References

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