CVE-2019-7148

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
29/01/2019
Last modified:
24/08/2020

Description

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers believe this is not a real issue, but instead a "warning caused by ASAN because the allocation is big. By setting ASAN_OPTIONS=allocator_may_return_null=1 and running the reproducer, nothing happens."

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.174:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


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