CVE - CVE-2020-21047

CVE-ID
CVE-2020-21047	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25068 MISC:https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=99dc63b10b3878616b85df2dfd2e4e7103e414b8 MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20230923 [SECURITY] [DLA 3579-1] elfutils security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00026.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20200813	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20200813)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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