Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1910-ELFUTILS-638516
  • published9 Feb 2019
  • disclosed9 Feb 2019

Introduced: 9 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-7665  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

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 heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c in libelf. A crafted ELF input can cause a segmentation fault leading to denial of service (program crash) because ebl_core_note does not reject malformed core file notes.