PT-2017-3781 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-03-27 · Updated 2022-08-01 · CVE-2017-7613

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 insufficient validation of the number of sections and segments in ELF files, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, via a specially crafted ELF file.

Recommendations For elfutils version 0.168, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2003

BDU:2019-01631

CVE-2017-7613

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 · 168

• 🔥 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/03/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-xcalloc-xmalloc-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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7613 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-01387 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7613 · Security Note