Out-of-bounds Read Affecting elfutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334942
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-7149  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Read. 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.

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