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Ubuntu: USN-3670-1 (CVE-2017-7613): elfutils vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3670-1 (CVE-2017-7613): elfutils vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/12/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-elfutils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libasm1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdw1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libelf1

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