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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : elfutils vulnerabilities (USN-3670-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110382

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110382

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3670-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2018

Updated: 10/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7613

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elfutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: 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

USN: 3670-1