dwarf_elf_load_headers.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (division by zero) via an ELF file with a zero-size section group (SHT_GROUP), as demonstrated by dwarfdump.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - dwarf_leb.c in libdwarf allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV). (CVE-2015-8538)

  - dwarf_elf_load_headers.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service
    (division by zero) via an ELF file with a zero-size section group (SHT_GROUP), as demonstrated by
    dwarfdump. (CVE-2019-14249)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - dwarf_elf_load_headers.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (division by zero) via an ELF file with a zero-size section group (SHT_GROUP), as demonstrated by     dwarfdump. (CVE-2019-14249)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to latest upstream release

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
424046	Alpine: multiple dwarf-tools packages, multiple libdwarf packages: security update to 0.6.0-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
424046	Alpine: multiple dwarf-tools packages, multiple libdwarf packages: security update to 0.6.0-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
222473	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-14249	Nessus	Misc.	medium
129699	Fedora 31 : libdwarf (2019-4fa597c615)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2019-14249

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