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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.0

CVE-2024-25260 json

elfutils v0.189 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the handle_verdef() function at readelf.c.

published 2024-02-20 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-22596

cvss
4.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

elfutils v0.189 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the handle_verdef() function at readelf.c.

Patch / fix

  • elfutils Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 0.190-1.1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-25260

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • elfutils Azure Linux 3.0 0.189-6

azure linux advisories AZL-38203

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-25260 updated cvss 4.0

elfutils: global-buffer-overflow exists in the function ebl_machine_flag_name in eblmachineflagname.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 elfutils, elfutils-libs, elfutils-libelf Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 elfutils, elfutils-libs, elfutils-libelf, elfutils-default-yama-scope
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 elfutils, elfutils-libs, elfutils-libelf, gcc-toolset-11-elfutils, elfutils-default-yama-scope, gcc-toolset-11-elfutils-libs, +2 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 elfutils, elfutils-libs, elfutils-libelf, elfutils-debuginfod, elfutils-debuginfod-client, elfutils-default-yama-scope
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 elfutils
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9
    under investigation

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31058 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/schsiung/fuzzer_issues/issues/1 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected products

  • elfutils_project elfutils

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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