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LIN9-8037 : Security Advisory - elfutils - CVE-2019-7148

Created: Feb 14, 2019    Updated: Feb 25, 2019
Resolved Date: Feb 20, 2019
Found In Version: 9.0.0.19
Fix Version: 9.0.0.20
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7148

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