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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-8769

CVE-2018-8769

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.

Affected products

2

Elfutils Project/Elfutils2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.170:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.170:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: =0.170

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

1

sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingPatch

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