elfutils vulnerabilities

5 June 2018

elfutils vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

elfutils could be made to crash or consume resources if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• elfutils - collection of utilities to handle ELF objects

Details

Agostino Sarubbo discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file, elfutils could be made to crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

elfutils - 0.165-3ubuntu1.1

libasm1 - 0.165-3ubuntu1.1

libdw1 - 0.165-3ubuntu1.1

libelf1 - 0.165-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

elfutils - 0.158-0ubuntu5.3

libasm1 - 0.158-0ubuntu5.3

libdw1 - 0.158-0ubuntu5.3

libelf1 - 0.158-0ubuntu5.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2016-10254
• CVE-2016-10255
• CVE-2017-7607
• CVE-2017-7608
• CVE-2017-7609
• CVE-2017-7610
• CVE-2017-7611
• CVE-2017-7612
• CVE-2017-7613