vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3670-1 (CVE-2016-10255): elfutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2017
Added
Jun 12, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock function in elf_getdata.c in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) sh_off or (2) sh_size ELF header value, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-elfutilsubuntu-upgrade-libasm1ubuntu-upgrade-libdw1ubuntu-upgrade-libelf1
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