Out-of-bounds Write Affecting elfutils package, versions <0.176-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.16% (53rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-ELFUTILS-336744
- published 9 Feb 2019
- disclosed 9 Feb 2019
Introduced: 9 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-7664 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
elfutils
to version 0.176-1 or higher.
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:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
In elfutils 0.175, a negative-sized memcpy is attempted in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h because of an incorrect overflow check. Crafted elf input causes a segmentation fault, leading to denial of service (program crash).