elfutils vulnerabilities

2023-08-3016:29:23

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osv.dev

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.006 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.8%

JSON

It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed
files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a
specially crafted file, elfutils could be made to crash or consume
resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-16062, CVE-2018-16403, CVE-2018-18310,
CVE-2018-18520, CVE-2018-18521, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150,
CVE-2019-7665)

It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled bounds checks in
certain functions when processing malformed files. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, elfutils
could be made to crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2020-21047, CVE-2021-33294)