Buffer Overflow Affecting elfutils package, versions [,0.190)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-6335731
  • published29 Feb 2024
  • disclosed20 Feb 2024
  • creditschsiung

Introduced: 20 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-25260  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade elfutils to version 0.190 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow due to the ebl_machine_flag_name function in eblmachineflagname.c. An attacker can cause a null pointer dereference and potentially lead to a denial of service by exploiting this vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1