CVE-2014-0172

Description

Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32

https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3