A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. This affects the function process_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument D/a leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 5e5c0394d82c53e97750fe7b18023e6f84157b81. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
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| https://vuldb.com/?id.295977 | vdb entry technical description |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295977 | signature permissions required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.496483 | third party advisory |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32654 | issue tracking |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15925 | exploit |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32654#c2 | patch issue tracking |
| https://www.gnu.org/ | product |