Out-of-Bounds Affecting elfutils package, versions [,0.168]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.62% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334929
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7610  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for elfutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The check_group function in elflint.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.

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