Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-7148  

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils <= 0.175. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils <= 0.175. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception.

AVG-863 libelf 0.175-1 Low Vulnerable

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24085