PT-2017-7833 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2016-11-20 · Updated 2019-07-03 · CVE-2016-10254

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 versions prior to 0.168

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure in the allocate elf function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.168, update to version 0.168 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2315

CVE-2016-10254

MGASA-2018-0027

SUSE-SU-2019:1733-1

SUSE-SU-2019_1733-1

USN-3670-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Elfutils

References · 116

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10254 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7608 · 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7609 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7611 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0027 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-01387 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10254 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10254 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7612 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:1733-1 · Vendor Advisory