cve/2016/CVE-2016-10254.md

CVE-2016-10254

Description

The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/

Github

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