PT-2017-17840 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-04-09 · Updated 2022-08-01 · CVE-2017-7609

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 is related to the elf compress.c file in elfutils, which does not validate the zlib compression factor. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by using a crafted ELF file.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.168, update to a version that includes the fix for the compression factor validation issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2003

CVE-2017-7609

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_1486-1

SUSE-SU-2022:2614-1

SUSE-SU-2022:2614-2

USN-3670-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Elfutils

References · 149

• 🔥 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_decompress-elf_compress-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/openSUSE-SU-2019:1590-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01240 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7613 · Security Note