CVE-2017-7609

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2017-7609 · Published 09/04/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-7609 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting elfutils (elfutils project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 76.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
elfutils elfutils_project	`= 0.168`	No fix yet

Description

elf_compress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-c · Exploit
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

elfutils

elfutils_project

= 0.168

No fix yet

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