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CVE-2019-7665
medium
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://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
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/2021/10/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html