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CVE-2019-7148

CVE-2019-7148 PUBLISHED

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers believe this is not a real issue, but instead a "warning caused by ASAN because the allocation is big. By setting ASAN_OPTIONS=allocator_may_return_null=1 and running the reproducer, nothing happens."

EPSS 0.75% · 73.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.75%
73.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSelfutils0.163-4ubuntu1, 0.163-5.1, 0.164-1
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSelfutils0.158-0ubuntu5.1, 0.157-1ubuntu1, 0.158-0ubuntu3
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTSelfutils0.170-0.1, 0.170-0.3, 0.170-0.4

Timeline

  • Jan 29, 2019 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
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