CVE-2026-35233

An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field

Medium · published May 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00149 · 3.8th percentile
Published
2026-05-01T17:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 17:53Z
    An unprivileged attacker can craft a user-space process with a malicious ELF binary containing an out-of-range sh_link field
    cvelistv5