PT-2017-7834 · Red Hat+3 · Elfutils+3

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2016-11-20 · Updated 2019-07-03 · CVE-2016-10255

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 header value, specifically through manipulated sh off or sh size values, which triggers a memory allocation failure. This occurs due to a problem in the libelf set rawdata wrlock function in elf getdata.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.168, update to version 0.168 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to elfutils until the update is applied.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2315

CVE-2016-10255

MGASA-2018-0027

SUSE-SU-2019:1733-1

USN-3670-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Elfutils

References · 86

• 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-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7609 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7611 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0027 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10255 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7612 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10255 · Vendor Advisory