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Bug 1441626 (CVE-2017-7610) - CVE-2017-7610 elfutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the check_group function
Summary: CVE-2017-7610 elfutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the check_group function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7610
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1441630
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-12 11:19 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-12 11:28:50 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 11:19:40 UTC 
The check_group function in elflint.c in elfutils allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21320

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2017-q1/msg00137.html

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-check_group-elflint-c/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-12 11:26:37 UTC 
Created elfutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1441630]
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