elfutils CVE-2017-7610 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	98612
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2017-7610
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-2017-7610 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-2017-7610 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• CVE-2017-7610 (Redhat)
  
• [PATCH] elflint: Don't check section group without flags word. (elfutils)
  
• Elfutils Homepage (elfutils)
  
• elfutils: heap-based buffer overflow in check_group (elflint.c) (gentoo.org)