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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7148

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7148 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

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."

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12elfutils0, 0, 0
Debian:14elfutils0, 0, 0
Debian:13elfutils0, 0, 0
Debian:11elfutils0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jan 29, 2019 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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