A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. This affects the function process_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument D/a leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is 5e5c0394d82c53e97750fe7b18023e6f84157b81. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. This affects the     function process_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the     argument D/a leads to buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has     been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is     5e5c0394d82c53e97750fe7b18023e6f84157b81. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    (CVE-2025-1365)

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

An update of the elfutils package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7369-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that readelf from elfutils could be made to read out of bounds. If a user or automated     system were tricked into running readelf on a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause readelf to     crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-25260)

    It was discovered that readelf from elfutils could be made to write out of bounds. If a user or automated     system were tricked into running readelf on a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause readelf to     crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2025-1365)

    It was discovered that readelf from elfutils could be made to dereference invalid memory. If a user or     automated system were tricked into running readelf on a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause     readelf to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu     24.10. (CVE-2025-1371)

    It was discovered that readelf from elfutils could be made to dereference invalid memory. If a user or     automated system were tricked into running readelf on a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause     readelf to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-1372)

    It was discovered that strip from elfutils could be made to dereference invalid memory. If a user or     automated system were tricked into running strip on a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause     strip to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-1377)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
258499	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1365	Nessus	Misc.	medium
233317	Photon OS 5.0: Elfutils PHSA-2025-5.0-0488	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
233299	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : elfutils vulnerabilities (USN-7369-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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