Description
elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/ ↗
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html ↗