CVE-2019-7146

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In elfutils 0.175, there is a buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note 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.

Affected products

GNU elfutils: 0.175

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24075
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24081
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24075
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24081

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