CVE-2018-8769: Elfutils Project Elfutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.170 only

Published 2018-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.