CVEs-PoC/2019/CVE-2019-7665.md

CVE-2019-7665

Description

In elfutils 0.175, a heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c in libelf. A crafted ELF input can cause a segmentation fault leading to denial of service (program crash) because ebl_core_note does not reject malformed core file notes.

POC

Reference

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24089

Github

• https://github.com/flyrev/security-scan-ci-presentation