Elfutils is a utilities library for manipulating ELF binaries and debugging symbols, deeply embedded in Linux development toolchains, compiler infrastructure, and system software across distributions. Despite its narrow product scope, the library's role in binary analysis and symbol processing makes it a critical component for developers and package-management systems, giving its vulnerabilities disproportionate reach across the software supply chain. The recurring weakness classes—out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflows, improper memory-buffer operations, and input-validation gaps—reflect the low-level parsing demands of ELF format handling and the memory-safety challenges inherent to C-based binary manipulation. Defenders should treat elfutils updates as a supply-chain priority and ensure that distributions and build systems relying on the library are kept current; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Elfutils Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (33 CVEs).
33 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2018-16402CRITICAL libelf/elf_end.c in elfutils 0.173 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because it tri | Sep 3, 2018 | 9.8 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-8769HIGH elfutils 0.170 has a buffer over-read in the ebl_dynamic_tag_name function of libebl/ebldynamictagname.c because SYMTAB_SHNDX is unsupported. | Mar 18, 2018 | 7.8 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-1372HIGH A vulnerability was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function dump_data_section/print_string_section of the file | Feb 17, 2025 | 7.8 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-7148MEDIUM An attempted excessive memory allocation was discovered in the function read_long_names in elf_begin.c in libelf in elfutils 0.174. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerabili | Jan 29, 2019 | 6.5 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-18520MEDIUM An Invalid Memory Address Dereference exists in the function elf_end in libelf in elfutils through v0.174. Although eu-size is intended to support ar files inside ar files, handle_ | Oct 19, 2018 | 6.5 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-1365HIGH A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. This affects the function process_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The | Feb 17, 2025 | 7.8 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-1352HIGH A vulnerability has been found in GNU elfutils 0.192 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __libdw_thread_tail in the library libdw_alloc.c of the com | Feb 16, 2025 | 7.5 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-7608MEDIUM The ebl_object_note_type_name function in eblobjnotetypename.c in elfutils 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application c | Apr 9, 2017 | 5.5 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-7150MEDIUM An issue was discovered in elfutils 0.175. A segmentation fault can occur in the function elf64_xlatetom in libelf/elf32_xlatetom.c, due to dwfl_segment_report_module not checking | Jan 29, 2019 | 5.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-18521MEDIUM Divide-by-zero vulnerabilities in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c in elfutils 0.174 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a craft | Oct 19, 2018 | 5.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (33 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Elfutils Project.
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