Vulnerability CVE-2018-16402

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-16402 (CCN-149340)

Assigned:

2018-08-15

Published:

2018-08-15

Updated:

2021-11-30

Summary:

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.

CVSS v3 Severity:

9.8 Critical (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
8.5 High (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

3.3 Low (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
2.9 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

4.3 Medium (REDHAT CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
3.8 Low (REDHAT Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

7.5 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

1.7 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-415
CWE-416

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-16402

Source: SUSE
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2019:1590

Source: REDHAT
Type: Third Party Advisory
RHSA-2019:2197

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
elfutils-cve201816402-dos(149340)

Source: MLIST
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[bookkeeper-issues] 20200729 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2387: Security vulnerabilities in the apache/bookkeeper-4.9.2 image

Source: MLIST
Type: Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[debian-lts-announce] 20211030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2802-1] elfutils security update

Source: CCN
Type: Sourceware Bugzilla Bug 23528
When executing ./eu-nm or ./eu-readelf -aAdehIlnrsSVcp -w, AddressSanitizer catch a double-free crash.

Source: MISC
Type: Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528

Source: CCN
Type: elfutils GIT Repository
libelf: Return error if elf_compress_gnu is used on SHF_COMPRESSED section.

Source: UBUNTU
Type: Third Party Advisory
USN-4012-1

Source: CCN
Type: IBM Security Bulletin 872832 (iDataPlex dx360 M4)
Multiple vulnerabilities affect Intel Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel MPSS) for Linux and Windows

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.173:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2:

cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 4:

cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 5:

cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration RedHat 1:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration RedHat 2:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::client:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration RedHat 3:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration RedHat 4:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::server:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration RedHat 5:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:201816402	V	CVE-2018-16402	2023-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:8031	P	libebl-plugins-0.177-150300.11.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2023-06-20
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:645	P	Security update for php7 (Moderate) (in QA)	2022-10-04
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:43656	P	Security update for dwarves and elfutils (Moderate)	2022-08-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:42329	P	Security update for dwarves and elfutils (Moderate)	2022-08-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:42425	P	Security update for dwarves and elfutils (Moderate)	2022-08-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3455	P	coolkey-1.1.0-148.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-28
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3399	P	xalan-j2-2.7.0-264.133 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-28
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:3467	P	cvs-1.12.12-182.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-28
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:95029	P	libebl-plugins-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-06-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1329	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 4 for SLE 15 SP3) (Important)	2022-04-25
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:979	P	Security update for xen (Important)	2022-03-23
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1536	P	Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)	2022-03-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:100414	P	(Critical)	2022-02-11
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64824	P	Security update for xorg-x11-server (Important)	2021-12-14
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:69737	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2021-10-11
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71411	P	unixODBC-2.3.6-1.12 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-09-21
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47846	P	pcsc-ccid-1.4.25-4.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47847	P	perl-32bit-5.18.2-12.17.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48189	P	libsaml8-2.5.5-3.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48053	P	java-1_8_0-ibm-1.8.0_sr5.40-30.54.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48175	P	libpolkit0-0.113-5.18.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48054	P	java-1_8_0-openjdk-1.8.0.222-27.35.2 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47861	P	procmail-3.22-269.3.5 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48307	P	socat-1.7.2.4-3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48068	P	libQt5WebKit5-5.6.2-1.31 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:47982	P	cups-1.7.5-20.23.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-16
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63364	P	python3-Twisted-19.10.0-3.2.6 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:1967	P	hdf5-gnu-hpc-1.10.7-2.25 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62342	P	umoci-0.4.6-3.9.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63000	P	cross-nvptx-gcc7-7.5.0+r278197-4.25.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71809	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:100826	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62798	P	libmms-devel-0.6.4-1.24 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62068	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62319	P	rsyslog-8.39.0-4.10.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71951	P	librsync-devel-1.0.0-1.27 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62318	P	rsync-3.1.3-4.3.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72067	P	skopeo-0.1.41-4.11.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-08-09
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64737	P	Security update for bluez (Moderate)	2021-07-22
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48761	P	ImageMagick-6.8.8.1-33.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48514	P	libksba8-1.3.0-23.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48399	P	davfs2-1.5.2-2.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48968	P	telepathy-idle-0.2.0-1.62 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48845	P	kernel-default-extra-4.4.73-5.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48606	P	python-imaging-1.1.7-21.8 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48547	P	libsmi-0.4.8-18.55 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48382	P	chrony-2.3-3.110 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48907	P	gnome-shell-calendar-3.20.4-77.17.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48754	P	pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-5.0-2.7 on GA media (Moderate)	2021-06-08
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51900	P	Security update for gstreamer-plugins-bad (Important)	2021-06-07
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:68171	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 10 for SLE 15 SP2) (Important)	2021-04-28
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:69632	P	Security update for sudo (Important)	2021-04-20
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:65277	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2021-03-29
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:68071	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 21 for SLE 15 SP1) (Important)	2021-02-10
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2174	P	gnuplot-5.2.2-3.3.29 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71475	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49003	P	libFLAC++6-32bit-1.3.0-11.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:62519	P	gd-2.2.5-4.6.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:107080	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:116638	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49032	P	libqt4-sql-mysql-32bit-4.8.7-8.8.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:61734	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63138	P	389-ds-1.4.0.3-2.39 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:71524	P	libHX-devel-3.22-1.26 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49052	P	python3-urllib3-1.22-3.17.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:93701	P	elfutils-0.168-4.5.3 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:48972	P	NetworkManager-1.0.12-13.12.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-03
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2748	P	Security update for libjpeg-turbo (Moderate)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2807	P	Security update for djvulibre (Moderate)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2817	P	Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2730	P	Security update for avahi (Moderate)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2777	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2762	P	Security update for audiofile (Low)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2815	P	Security update for libjpeg-turbo (Important)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2736	P	Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2801	P	Security update for ImageMagick (Moderate)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2726	P	Security update for libopenmpt (Important)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:2768	P	Security update for libvpx (Important)	2020-12-02
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50562	P	Security update for tar (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:68714	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50404	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49114	P	gstreamer on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49262	P	libxerces-c-3_1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50557	P	Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49995	P	cyrus-sasl-sqlauxprop on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:72954	P	Security update for MozillaThunderbird (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:65367	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49179	P	libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:73072	P	elfutils on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63931	P	Security update for mailman (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66289	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:74127	P	Security update for python (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49740	P	jython on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49210	P	libpainter0 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50611	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50393	P	Security update for NetworkManager (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:74253	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:51838	P	Security update for slurm (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63691	P	Security update for bluez (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49074	P	cron on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:66381	P	elfutils on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50458	P	Security update for openldap2 (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49389	P	accountsservice on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50233	P	kernel-default-extra on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49243	P	libtasn1 on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50489	P	Security update for python3 (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64033	P	Security update for ceph (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49244	P	libthai-data on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49838	P	jackson-databind on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49281	P	opensc on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64075	P	Security update for ovmf (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49086	P	elfutils on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:68611	P	Security update for glibc (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:63825	P	Security update for ucode-intel (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50350	P	Security update for tiff (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:64187	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:49594	P	pulseaudio on GA media (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:50323	P	Security update for clamav (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20192197	P	RHSA-2019:2197: elfutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Low)	2019-08-06
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:109877	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2019-06-19
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:90150	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2019-06-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:104388	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2019-06-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:90733	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2019-06-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:103805	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2019-06-13
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:97698	P	Security update for elfutils (Moderate)	2019-06-13
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201816402000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018164020000000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.disco:def:2018164020000000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201816402000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:2018164020000000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201816402000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018164020000000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-09-03
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201816402000	V	CVE-2018-16402 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.	2018-09-03

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