CVE-2014-0172 (GCVE-0-2014-0172)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-11 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 09:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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