medium5.5
CVE-2020-21047
The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crash…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elfutils Project | Elfutils | Version 0.177 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00026.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25068
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=99dc63b10b3878616b85df2dfd2e4e7103e414b8
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html