# CVE-2020-21047: The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused b

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-08-22 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

No affected packages have been listed by the sources.

## Description

The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off-by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks.

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## References

- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25068
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=99dc63b10b3878616b85df2dfd2e4e7103e414b8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00026.html

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