Description
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.
Published: 2023-08-22
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3579-1 elfutils security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-13826 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6322-1 elfutils vulnerabilities
History

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Elfutils Project Elfutils
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-10-07T15:41:01.120Z

Reserved: 2020-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-21047

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T14:22:25.620Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-22T19:16:09.657

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:12:23.310

Link: CVE-2020-21047

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