Executive Summary

Summary
Title elfutils: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201710-10 First vendor Publication 2017-10-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-10-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in elfutils, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in elfutils. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via specially crafted ELF files.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All elfutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/elfutils-0.169-r1"

Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-10254 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10254
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-10255 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10255
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-7607 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7607
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-7608 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7608
[ 5 ] CVE-2017-7609 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7609
[ 6 ] CVE-2017-7610 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7610
[ 7 ] CVE-2017-7611 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7611
[ 8 ] CVE-2017-7612 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7612
[ 9 ] CVE-2017-7613 : https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7613

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201710-10.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
56 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
22 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
22 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 10
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-16 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-08 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1142.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-08 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1143.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-a6f5c8fbf3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-5e4fb05a0a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-10-17 13:25:15
  • Multiple Updates
2017-10-14 05:21:29
  • First insertion