CVE-2018-8769

7.8 highEPSS 0.8%

High (7.8) in elfutils project elfutils. 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.

Severity

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 57% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2018-03-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19