CVE-2020-21047

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off-by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks.

Affected products

GNU elfutils: 0.177

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00026.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25068
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=99dc63b10b3878616b85df2dfd2e4e7103e414b8
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00026.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25068
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=99dc63b10b3878616b85df2dfd2e4e7103e414b8
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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