CVE-2017-7613

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-7613
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-04-09T14:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-06-20T03:15:10
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.168:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-c Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7613
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7613
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:49:55 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 15:38:49 2017-04-09T14:59Z 2017-04-09T14:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 15:38:49 2019-06-20T03:15:10 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 15:38:49 Modified Vulnerability Status updated