CVE-2019-14249

Summary

CVECVE-2019-14249
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-07-24 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-05 14:26:00 UTC
Descriptiondwarf_elf_load_headers.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (division by zero) via an ELF file with a zero-size section group (SHT_GROUP), as demonstrated by dwarfdump.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-369

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libdwarf Project Libdwarf All All All All
Application Libdwarf Project Libdwarf All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Libdwarf CVE-2019-14249 Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
libdwarf - DWARF debugging information / Code / Diff of /libdwarf/dwarf_elf_load_headers.c MISC sourceforge.net Patch, Third Party Advisory
libdwarf - DWARF debugging information / Code / Merge Request #4: Fix division by zero bug (open) MISC sourceforge.net Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 503113 Alpine Linux Security Update for libdwarf
  • 505883 Alpine Linux Security Update for libdwarf
  • 907828 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for libdwarf (33329-1)
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