CVE-2026-35233

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Description

An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field. When root-level dtrace attaches to -- or instruments -- that process (via dtrace -p , pid probes, or USDT), the ELF parser reads heap memory beyond the allocated section cache array without any bounds check. This results in an uninitialized/out-of-bounds heap read that can cause a NULL pointer dereference crash of the dtrace process (DoS), or -- depending on heap layout -- a read-then-use of a garbage pointer controlled by adjacent allocations, providing a foothold toward further exploitation in a privileged context.

References

https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2026-35233.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-01

Updated: 2026-05-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.2

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium