CVE-2016-10255

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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 __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock function in elf_getdata.c in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) sh_off or (2) sh_size ELF header value, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Affected products

GNU elfutils: through 0.167

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/1
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock-elf_getdata-c/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387584
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/Q4LE47FPEVRZANMV6JE2NMHYO4H5MHGJ/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/1
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock-elf_getdata-c/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387584
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/Q4LE47FPEVRZANMV6JE2NMHYO4H5MHGJ/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/

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