CVE-2018-18521 - log back

CVE-2018-18521 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ Medium
Remote
+ Remote
Type
+ Denial of service
Description
+ Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by eu-ranlib, because a zero sh_entsize is mishandled.
References
+ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786
+ https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2018-q4/msg00055.html
Notes