CVE-2020-21047
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.01%elfutils - security update
Published: 8/22/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-21047
Description
The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off-by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/elfutilsfrom 0, < 0.180-1
- Debian/elfutilsfrom 0, < 0.176-1.1+deb10u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |