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CVE-2019-7665

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-7665 is a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in elfutils 0.175, specifically within the elf32_xlatetom function, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. This flaw allows a crafted ELF input to trigger a segmentation fault, leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires local access and user interaction to exploit, resulting in high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity impact. Currently, 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
0.175CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elfutils_project:elfutils:0.175:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

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
1.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0137 is in the 79th 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

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-2019-7665Low

elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c

Jan 12, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2197
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3575
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00036.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
sourceware.org / ml/elfutils-devel/2019-q1/msg00049.html
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4012-1
Third Party Advisory