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...

file stack buffer out-of-bounds read vulnerability

file is a command-line tool used on Unix-like systems to view file information. A stack buffer out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in dobidnote in the readelf.c file of the libmagic.a static link library in file version 5.35. This allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-7607

The handlegnuhash function in readelf.c in elfutils 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash via a crafted ELF file...