CVE-2019-7665 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24089 https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00049.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5