elfutils CVE-2019-7149 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	108862
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2019-7149
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 20 2019 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 20 2019 12:00AM
Credit:	Wcventure.
Vulnerable:	Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 Elfutils Project Elfutils 0.175
Not Vulnerable:

elfutils CVE-2019-7149 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

elfutils is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

elfutils 0.175 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

elfutils CVE-2019-7149 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

The researcher has created a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the issue. Please see the references for more information.

elfutils CVE-2019-7149 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

elfutils CVE-2019-7149 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Bug 24102 - A Heap-buffer-overflow problem was discovered in the function read_s (elfutils)
  
• Elfutils Homepage (elfutils)
  
• [PATCH] libdw: Check terminating NUL byte in dwarf_getsrclines for dir/file tabl (elfutils)
  
• CVE-2019-7149: Redhat Advisory (Redhat)