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CVE-2017-7613

Date: April 9, 2017

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.

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7613

Url: https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7613

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7613

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7613

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-7613

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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