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CVE-2017-7610

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7610 describes a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in the check_group function of elflint.c within elfutils 0.168, affecting various distributions including Canonical and Debian. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) can lead to a denial of service and application crash through a crafted ELF file, requiring user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.168CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.168:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0175 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: elfutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: elfutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: elfutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7610Low

elfutils: Heap-buffer overflow in the check_group function

Apr 4, 2017

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-check_group-elflint-c
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201710-10
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3670-1
Third Party Advisory