Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. This affects the function process_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument D/a leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 5e5c0394d82c53e97750fe7b18023e6f84157b81. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.295977
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295977
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.496483
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32654
Exploit exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15925
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
patch
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32654#c2
Product product
https://www.gnu.org/
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
7.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-119
CWE-120
Status
published
Products (1)
elfutils_project/elfutils
0.192
Published
Feb 17, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026