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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-7148: elfutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-7148: elfutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/29/2019
Created
12/12/2019
Added
12/11/2019
Modified
07/31/2020

Description

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers believe this is not a real issue, but instead a "warning caused by ASAN because the allocation is big. By setting ASAN_OPTIONS=allocator_may_return_null=1 and running the reproducer, nothing happens."

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-default-yama-scope
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-libelf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-elfutils-libs

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