CVE-2017-7607: Elfutils Project Elfutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The handle_gnu_hash function in readelf.c in elfutils 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.168 only

Published 2017-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.