ALPINE-CVE-2019-7148

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function readlongnames in elfbegin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers...

elfutils 'read_long_names' function denial of service vulnerability

elfutils is a collection of utilities and libraries for reading, creating, and modifying ELF binaries. libelf is one of these libraries for parsing and interacting with ELF-formatted binaries. A security vulnerability exists in the 'readlongnames' function in the elfbegin.c file of libelf in...