CVE-2021-33294

2023-07-1800:00:00

ubuntu.com

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

1.9 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.0%

JSON

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

Notes

Author	Note
	Priority reason: No real security impact as this is a command-line utility that is not generally expected to handle untrusted input.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchelfutils< 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-onlyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchelfutils< 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchelfutils< 0.158-0ubuntu5.3+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-onlyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchelfutils< 0.165-3ubuntu1.2+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-onlyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	elfutils	< 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	elfutils	< 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	elfutils	< 0.158-0ubuntu5.3+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	elfutils	< 0.165-3ubuntu1.2+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only	UNKNOWN