Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-ELFUTILS-322375
  • published9 Apr 2017
  • disclosed9 Apr 2017

Introduced: 9 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils package and not the elfutils package as distributed by Debian.

The handle_gnu_hash function in readelf.c in elfutils 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.