Vulnerability CVE-2019-7149


Published: 2019-01-28   Modified: 2019-01-29

Description:
A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw in elfutils 0.175. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-nm.

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Elfutils project -> Elfutils 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24102
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00068.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/

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