elfintils 'elflint.c' file denial of service vulnerability

elfutils is a collection of utilities and libraries for reading, creating and modifying ELF binaries. A security vulnerability exists in the elflint.c file in elfutils version 0.168. Since the program fails to validate the number of sections and segments. A remote attacker could cause a denial of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7613

elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...