fkie_cve-2016-10254
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-03-23 16:59
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/message/EJWVY7TMRDEMWPAPNVU3V4MZYG5HANF2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/message/EJWVY7TMRDEMWPAPNVU3V4MZYG5HANF2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elfutils_project elfutils *


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