CVE-2019-7148

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-7148
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-7148.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-7148
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-01-29T00:29:00.347Z
Modified
2026-07-01T11:54:38.786370914Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function readlongnames in elfbegin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via crafted elf input, which leads to an out-of-memory exception. NOTE: The maintainers believe this is not a real issue, but instead a "warning caused by ASAN because the allocation is big. By setting ASANOPTIONS=allocatormayreturn_null=1 and running the reproducer, nothing happens."

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
52b6b2f1f49e7385527e9f311f248092be0c0b61
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.174"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.174:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

elfutils-0.*
elfutils-0.120
elfutils-0.121
elfutils-0.122
elfutils-0.123
elfutils-0.124
elfutils-0.125
elfutils-0.126
elfutils-0.127
elfutils-0.128
elfutils-0.129
elfutils-0.130
elfutils-0.131
elfutils-0.132
elfutils-0.133
elfutils-0.134
elfutils-0.135
elfutils-0.136
elfutils-0.137
elfutils-0.138
elfutils-0.142
elfutils-0.143
elfutils-0.144
elfutils-0.145
elfutils-0.146
elfutils-0.147
elfutils-0.148
elfutils-0.149
elfutils-0.150
elfutils-0.151
elfutils-0.152
elfutils-0.153
elfutils-0.154
elfutils-0.155
elfutils-0.156
elfutils-0.157
elfutils-0.158
elfutils-0.159
elfutils-0.160
elfutils-0.161
elfutils-0.162
elfutils-0.163
elfutils-0.164
elfutils-0.165
elfutils-0.166
elfutils-0.167
elfutils-0.168
elfutils-0.169
elfutils-0.170
elfutils-0.171
elfutils-0.172
elfutils-0.173
elfutils-0.174

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-7148.json"