CVE-2019-7664

medium

Description

In elfutils 0.175, a negative-sized memcpy is attempted in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h because of an incorrect overflow check. Crafted elf input causes a segmentation fault, leading to denial of service (program crash).

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24084

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-02-09

Updated: 2023-02-28

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

Severity: Medium