Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1441626
CVE-2017-7610 elfutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the check_group function
Last modified: 2017-04-12 07:28:50 EDT
The check_group function in elflint.c in elfutils allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file. Upstream bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21320 Upstream patch: https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2017-q1/msg00137.html References: https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-check_group-elflint-c/
Created elfutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1441630]