elfutils vulnerabilities

10 June 2019

elfutils vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in elfutils.

Software Description

• elfutils - collection of utilities to handle ELF objects

Details

It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted 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 18.10

elfutils - 0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1

libasm1 - 0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1

libdw1 - 0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1

libelf1 - 0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

elfutils - 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1

libasm1 - 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1

libdw1 - 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1

libelf1 - 0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

elfutils - 0.165-3ubuntu1.2

libasm1 - 0.165-3ubuntu1.2

libdw1 - 0.165-3ubuntu1.2

libelf1 - 0.165-3ubuntu1.2

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-2018-16062
• CVE-2018-16402
• CVE-2018-16403
• CVE-2018-18310
• CVE-2018-18520
• CVE-2018-18521
• CVE-2019-7149
• CVE-2019-7150
• CVE-2019-7665