Executive Summary



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Summary
Title elfutils vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2188-1 First vendor Publication 2014-04-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-04-30
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 13.10 - Ubuntu 12.10

Summary:

elfutils could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - elfutils: collection of utilities to handle ELF objects

Details:

Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly handled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file, applications linked against libdw could be made to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libdw1 0.158-0ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 13.10:
libdw1 0.157-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
libdw1 0.153-1ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2188-1
CVE-2014-0172

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.158-0ubuntu5.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.157-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.153-1ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24740
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24740
Title: USN-2188-1 -- elfutils vulnerability
Description: elfutils could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2188-1
CVE-2014-0172
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
 Product(s): elfutils
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-32.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-345.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-491.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-05-01 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2188-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-04-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-5031.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-04-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-5015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-05-02 13:24:13
  • Multiple Updates
2014-04-30 17:18:08
  • First insertion