Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ELFUTILS-638491
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed9 Feb 2019

Introduced: 9 Feb 2019

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

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).