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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-21047

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-21047 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off-by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

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

Timeline

  • Aug 22, 2023 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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