Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting elfutils package, versions *
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- published 29 Jan 2019
- disclosed 29 Jan 2019
Introduced: 29 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-7148 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
elfutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils
package and not the elfutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers believe this is not a real issue, but instead a "warning caused by ASAN because the allocation is big. By setting ASAN_OPTIONS=allocator_may_return_null=1 and running the reproducer, nothing happens."