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CVE-2019-7664

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In elfutils 0.175, a negative-sized memcpy is attempted in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h because of an incorrect overflow check. Crafted elf input causes a segmentation fault, leading to denial of service (program crash).

Affected products

• GNU elfutils: 0.175
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24084
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24084

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