CVE-2017-7613: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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

elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.168 only

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