CVE-2014-0172

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

elfutils project elfutils

First reported 10 years ago

2014-04-11 15:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-01 01:29:00

Affected Software

elfutils project elfutils 0.153

0.153

elfutils project elfutils 0.154

0.154

elfutils project elfutils 0.155

0.155

elfutils project elfutils 0.156

0.156

elfutils project elfutils 0.157

0.157

elfutils project elfutils 0.158

0.158

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