Memory corruption in elfutils - CVE-2016-10254
Published: June 7, 2018 / Updated: June 8, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13237
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10254
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the allocate_elf function of elfutils due to boundary error when handling Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files by the allocate_elf function, as defined in the common.h source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening an ELF file that submits malicious input, trigger memory corruption and cause the application to crash.
Affected software
elfutils
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10254
Update to version 0.168.
elfutils - update to 0.168