cve/2017/CVE-2017-7609.md

CVE-2017-7609

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.

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-c

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list