Vulnerability CVE-2020-21047


Published: 2023-08-22

Description:
The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off-by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks.

 References:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=99dc63b10b3878616b85df2dfd2e4e7103e414b8
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25068

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