Numeric Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elfutils (opens in a new tab)
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- published11 Apr 2014
- disclosed11 Apr 2014
Introduced: 11 Apr 2014
CVE-2014-0172 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils package and not the elfutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-0172
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0172
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32
- https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1