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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-21047: Security patch for elfutils (ALAS-2023-2259)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-21047: Security patch for elfutils (ALAS-2023-2259)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/22/2023
Created
09/21/2023
Added
09/21/2023
Modified
09/21/2023

Description

The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off-by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-default-yama-scope
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-devel-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libelf
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libelf-devel-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-elfutils-libs

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