Description
A vulnerability was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function dump_data_section/print_string_section of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument z/x leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 73db9d2021cab9e23fd734b0a76a612d52a6f1db. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.295981
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295981
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.496485
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32656
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32657
Exploit exploit
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15927
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
patch
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32656#c3
Product product
https://www.gnu.org/
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0004
EPSS Percentile
12.8%
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