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Bug 1441629 - (CVE-2017-7613) CVE-2017-7613 elfutils: elflint.c does not validate the number of sections and segments
CVE-2017-7613 elfutils: elflint.c does not validate the number of sections an...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20170404,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1441630
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Reported: 2017-04-12 07:24 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-04-12 07:29 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 07:24:31 EDT 
elflint.c in elfutils does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21312

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2017-q1/msg00133.html

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 07:27:16 EDT 
Created elfutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1441630]
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