An issue was discovered in elfutils 0.175. A segmentation fault can occur in the function elf64xlatetom in libelf/elf32xlatetom.c, due to dwflsegmentreport_module not checking whether the dyn data read from a core file is truncated. A crafted input can cause a program crash, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by eu-stack.
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