An issue was discovered in elfutils 0.175. A segmentation fault...
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in elfutils 0.175. A segmentation fault can occur in the function elf64_xlatetom in libelf/elf32_xlatetom.c, due to dwfl_segment_report_module not checking whether the dyn data read from a core file is truncated. A crafted input can cause a program crash, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-stack.
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References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24103
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00070.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
- 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/2021/10/msg00030.html
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