CVE-2019-7148

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    CVE-2019-7148

    Published: 29 Jan 2019Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 52b6b2f1f49e7385527e9f311f248092be0c0b61
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.174

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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