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GHSA-5q28-cp33-8xjc
GHSA-5q28-cp33-8xjc
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
elf_compress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 14, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7609 advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-c url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 url