Denial of Service Vulnerability in elf_compress.c in elfutils 0.168

CVE-2017-7609 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

elf_compress.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the zlib compression factor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

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