vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6322-1 (CVE-2021-33294): elfutils vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 18, 2023
Added
Aug 31, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In elfutils 0.183, an infinite loop was found in the function handle_symtab in readelf.c .Which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted file.

Solutions

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