CVE-2019-7146: Elfutils Project Elfutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In elfutils 0.175, there is a buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note function in eblobjnote.c in libebl. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted elf file, as demonstrated by eu-readelf.

Affected products

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.175 only

Published 2019-01-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.