CVE-2018-16403: Elfutils Project Elfutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libdw in elfutils 0.173 checks the end of the attributes list incorrectly in dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in dwarf_hasattr.c, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read and an application crash.

Affected products

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.173 only

Published 2018-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.