Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-7613
elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 45.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
Products affected by CVE-2017-7613
-
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.168
-
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04
-
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04
-
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0