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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-7146

Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted elf file, as demonstrated by eu-readelf.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.51%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.51%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In elfutils 0.175, there is a buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note function in eblobjnote.c in libebl. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted elf file, as demonstrated by eu-readelf.

CVSS 3.0
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.51% probability · 73th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
elfutils project/elfutils
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.