Description
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."
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2019-16698 | 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." |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T20:38:33.482Z
Reserved: 2019-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2019-7148
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Status : Modified
Published: 2019-01-29T00:29:00.347
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:47:39.797
Link: CVE-2019-7148
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