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ghsa-39hq-3m25-w277

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 03:20

Modified

2025-04-20 03:34

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

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  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:34:38Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:20:03Z",
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CVE-2016-10254 (GCVE-0-2016-10254)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-03-23 16:00

Modified

2024-08-06 03:14

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/2	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/message/EJWVY7TMRDEMWPAPNVU3V4MZYG5HANF2/	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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