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CVE-2019-7665
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-125
Description
In elfutils 0.175, a heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c in libelf. A crafted ELF input can cause a segmentation fault leading to denial of service (program crash) because ebl_core_note does not reject malformed core file notes.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
- GNU elfutils: 0.175
- openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24089
- https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00049.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
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