PT-2017-17839 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-04-09 · Updated 2022-08-01 · CVE-2017-7608

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, via a crafted ELF file. This is due to the ebl object note type name function in eblobjnotetypename.c.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.168, consider avoiding the use of the ebl object note type name function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted ELF files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2003

CVE-2017-7608

DLA-1689-1

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

USN-3670-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Elfutils

References · 170

• 🔥 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-ebl_object_note_type_name-eblobjnotetypename-c · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1689-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10254 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01631 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1689-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7610 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:2614-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7609 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-7608 · 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