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CVE-2019-7664

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-7664 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in elfutils 0.175, affecting the elfutils_project and Red Hat products. The flaw stems from an incorrect overflow check in the elf_cvt_note function, leading to a negative-sized memcpy attempt and subsequent segmentation fault when processing crafted ELF input. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires local access and user interaction for exploitation, resulting in a program crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.175CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.175:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-memcached-rhel7:1.4.15-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: elfutils-0:0.176-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: elfutils-0:0.176-5.el8
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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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-7664Low

elfutils: out of bound write in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h

Jan 11, 2019

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2197
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3575
Third Party Advisory
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory