CVE-2017-7613

MEDIUM

elfutils <0.168 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

References (5)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html

[Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0061

EPSS Percentile 69.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Affected Products (5)

elfutils_project/elfutils

debian/debian_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Apr 09, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026