{"id":"CVE-2017-7609","details":"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.","modified":"2026-08-28T14:01:29.384255Z","published":"2017-04-09T14:59:00.717Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2019:1486-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2614-1","SUSE-SU-2022:2614-2","openSUSE-SU-2019:1590-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-c"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git","events":[{"introduced":"515dd0acc77673c953380bcf5ccfb05b83c5a3ab"},{"last_affected":"515dd0acc77673c953380bcf5ccfb05b83c5a3ab"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0.168"},{"last_affected":"0.168"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.168:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"versions":["0.168","elfutils-0.168"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7609.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}