PT-2017-17838 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-04-09 · Updated 2022-08-01 · CVE-2017-7607

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions elfutils version 0.168

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a heap-based buffer over-read and application crash, through a crafted ELF file. This is due to the handle gnu hash function in readelf.c.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.168, consider disabling the handle gnu hash function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to crafted ELF files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2003

CVE-2017-7607

MGASA-2018-0027

MGASA-2019-0222

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1590-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1590-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_2614-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1486-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1733-1

SUSE-SU-2019_1486-1

SUSE-SU-2022:2614-1

SUSE-SU-2022:2614-2

SUSE-SU-2022_2614-1

USN-3670-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Elfutils

References · 159

• 🔥 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-handle_gnu_hash-readelf-c · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10254 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01631 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7610 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7609 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:2614-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-05869 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0027 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:2614-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-01387 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:1733-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2019:1590-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01240 · Security Note