The vulnerability of the handle_symtab function in the readelf.c component of the ELF modification and analysis utility Elfutils allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability in the handlesymtab function of the readelf.c component of the ELF modification and analysis tool Elfutils involves executing a loop with an unreachable exit condition. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure using a specially created fil...

OESA-2023-1445 elfutils security update

Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack to show backtraces, nm for listing symbols from object files, size for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file, strip for discarding symbols, elflint to check for well-formed ELF files and elfcompress to compress or decompress...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-33294

In elfutils 0.183, an infinite loop was found in the function handlesymtab in readelf.c .Which allows attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via crafted file...