CVE-2018-18310: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl in elfutils through v0.174. The vulnerability allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by consider_notes.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Elfutils Project Elfutils: up to and including 0.174
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.