CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
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4DescriptionNVD
An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field. When root-level dtrace attaches to -- or instruments -- that process (via dtrace -p , pid probes, or USDT), the ELF parser reads heap memory beyond the allocated section cache array without any bounds check. This results in an uninitialized/out-of-bounds heap read that can cause a NULL pointer dereference crash of the dtrace process (DoS), or -- depending on heap layout -- a read-then-use of a garbage pointer controlled by adjacent allocations, providing a foothold toward further exploitation in a privileged context.
AnalysisAI
DTrace kernel instrumentation tool on Linux is vulnerable to a denial-of-service and potential privilege escalation attack when processing malicious ELF binaries with out-of-range sh_link fields. An unprivileged attacker can craft an ELF binary that, when instrumented by a root-level dtrace process, triggers an out-of-bounds heap read in the ELF parser. …
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EUVD-2026-26702