An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function readlongnames in elfbegin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers believe this is not a real issue, but instead a "warning caused by ASAN because the allocation is big. By setting ASANOPTIONS=allocatormayreturnnull=1 and running the reproducer, nothing happens."

In elfutils 0.183, an infinite loop was found in the function handlesymtab in readelf.c .Which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted file.

Last updated 24 July 2024

In elfutils 0.175, there is a buffer over-read in the eblobjectnote function in eblobjnote.c in libebl. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted elf file, as demonstrated by eu-readelf.

In elfutils 0.175, a negative-sized memcpy is attempted in elfcvtnote in libelf/notexlate.h because of an incorrect overflow check. Crafted elf input causes a segmentation fault, leading to denial of service (program crash).

Reference: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=24084