CVE-2019-7665medium
Description
In elfutils 0.175, a heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c in libelf. A crafted ELF input can cause a segmentation fault leading to denial of service (program crash) because ebl_core_note does not reject malformed core file notes.
References
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00049.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24089
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2019-02-09
Updated: 2021-11-30
Type: CWE-125
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 1.8
Severity: MEDIUM