CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0172
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• elfutils project elfutils 0.153
• elfutils project elfutils 0.154
• elfutils project elfutils 0.155
• elfutils project elfutils 0.156
• elfutils project elfutils 0.157
• elfutils project elfutils 0.158
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32 security.gentoo.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32 security.gentoo.org