elfutils CVE-2017-7609 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	98611
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2017-7609
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 09 2017 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 09 2017 12:00AM
Credit:	Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.
Vulnerable:	Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 + Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0 + Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 + Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 + Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 Elfutils Project Elfutils 0.168
Not Vulnerable:

elfutils CVE-2017-7609 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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

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

elfutils 0.168 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

elfutils CVE-2017-7609 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• CVE-2017-7609 (Redhat)
  
• [PATCH] libelf: Check compression ratio before trying to allocate output buffer. (elfutils)
  
• Elfutils Homepage (elfutils)
  
• elfutils: memory allocation failure in __libelf_decompress (elf_compress.c) (gentoo.org)