CVE-2019-7149

N/A
Published: January 29, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:40 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxElfutils

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the function read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw in elfutils 0.175. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-nm.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (6)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24102
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00068.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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