CVE-2020-21047

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductElfutils
PublishedAug 22, 2023
First seenAug 22, 2023

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
elfutils_project elfutils0.177—

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