CVE-2014-0172

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: 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 products

GNU elfutils: 0.153, 0.154, 0.155, 0.156, 0.157, 0.158

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32

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