CVE-2017-7613

moderate-risk
Published 2017-04-09

elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

Do I need to act?

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0.61% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

Elfutils Project Debian Canonical

References (10)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
Exploit https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xc...
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
Exploit https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xc...
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
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moderate-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 10/34 · Low