SB2019013112 - Denial of service in elfutils

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SB2019013112 - Denial of service in elfutils

Published: January 31, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019013112
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7148)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in the libelf component due to improper handling of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files by the read_long_names function, as defined in the elf_begin.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing an ELF file that submits malicious input and cause the affected application to improperly allocate excessive memory resources, resulting in a DoS condition.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

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