CVE-2018-8769

Publication date 18 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

elfutils 0.170 has a buffer over-read in the ebl_dynamic_tag_name function of libebl/ebldynamictagname.c because SYMTAB_SHNDX is unsupported.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
elfutils	17.10 artful	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

appears to be introduced after bionic's version

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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