CVE-2017-7609

Published: Apr 9, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

elf_compress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

USN-3670-1

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-c

x_refsource_MISC

GLSA-201710-10

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

openSUSE-SU-2019:1590

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

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CVE-2017-7609

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