CVE-2017-7609

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions elfutils version 0.168

Description The issue is related to the elf compress.c file in elfutils, which does not validate the zlib compression factor. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by using a crafted ELF file.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.168, update to a version that includes the fix for the compression factor validation issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.