Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-ELFUTILS-638725
- published29 Jan 2019
- disclosed29 Jan 2019
Introduced: 29 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-7149 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils package and not the elfutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw in elfutils 0.175. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-nm.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-7149
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-7149
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24102
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00068.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/