PT-2017-17841 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-04-09 · Updated 2022-08-01 · CVE-2017-7611

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 a problem in the check symtab shndx function in elflint.c.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.168, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as using a crafted ELF file can cause the application to crash. 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-2017-7611

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 · 167

• 🔥 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-check_symtab_shndx-elflint-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://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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7611 · Vendor Advisory