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
0.57% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334943
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-7146  (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. In elfutils 0.175, there is a buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note function in eblobjnote.c in libebl. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted elf file, as demonstrated by eu-readelf.

CVSS Scores

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