Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
1.02% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-ELFUTILS-10075554
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed9 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-7664  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In elfutils 0.175, a negative-sized memcpy is attempted in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h because of an incorrect overflow check. Crafted elf input causes a segmentation fault, leading to denial of service (program crash).

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