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CVE-2016-10254

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Affected products

• GNU elfutils: through 0.167

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/2
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/
• https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/message/EJWVY7TMRDEMWPAPNVU3V4MZYG5HANF2/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/2
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/
• https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/message/EJWVY7TMRDEMWPAPNVU3V4MZYG5HANF2/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/

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