Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-7665  

In elfutils 0.175, a heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c in libelf. A crafted ELF input can cause a segmentation fault leading to denial of service (program crash) because ebl_core_note does not reject malformed core file notes.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

In elfutils 0.175, a heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c in libelf. A crafted ELF input can cause a segmentation fault leading to denial of service (program crash) because ebl_core_note does not reject malformed core file notes.

AVG-887 libelf 0.175-1 0.175-2 Medium Vulnerable

https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00049.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24089