CVE-2014-0172: Elfutils Project Elfutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.153 only; version 0.154 only; version 0.155 only; version 0.156 only; version 0.157 only; version 0.158 only

Published 2014-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.