cve-2021-33294
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-18 00:00
Modified
2024-10-28 17:05
Severity ?
Summary
In elfutils 0.183, an infinite loop was found in the function handle_symtab in readelf.c .Which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27501Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2021q1/003607.htmlMailing List, Patch
Impacted products
n/an/a
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