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Debian: CVE-2019-7149: elfutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 28, 2019
Added
Mar 12, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw in elfutils 0.175. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-nm.

Solution

debian-upgrade-elfutils
Title
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