CVE-2017-7609

medium

Description

elf_compress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

References

Advisories
More

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-09

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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