CVE-2017-7609: Elfutils Project Elfutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.168 only

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