ubuntu · CVE-2017-7607

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-04-09 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:38:08 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7607 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (elfutils), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 10, ignored 3, needed 1.

Description:

The handle_gnu_hash function in readelf.c in elfutils 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

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