CVE-2018-8769

HIGH 7.8CVE-2018-8769 · Published 18/03/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-8769 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting elfutils (elfutils project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.84%, higher than 57.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
elfutils elfutils_project	`= 0.170`	No fix yet

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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Affected versions

Patched versions

= 0.170

No fix yet

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