Out-of-bounds Read Affecting elfutils package, versions <0.168-1+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-ELFUTILS-322299
  • published29 Jan 2019
  • disclosed29 Jan 2019

Introduced: 29 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-7150  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 elfutils to version 0.168-1+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils package and not the elfutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in elfutils 0.175. A segmentation fault can occur in the function elf64_xlatetom in libelf/elf32_xlatetom.c, due to dwfl_segment_report_module not checking whether the dyn data read from a core file is truncated. A crafted input can cause a program crash, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-stack.

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