CVE-2014-0172 (GCVE-0-2014-0172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-11 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2014-04-09 00:00
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