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Debian LTS DLA-2802-1 Critical: Elfutils Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS users should update elfutils swiftly to address critical vulnerabilities that may compromise system integrity and data confidentiality
Several vulnerabilities were fixed in elfutils, a collection of utilities and libraries to handle ELF objects

Summary

CVE-2018-16062

dwarf_getaranges in dwarf_getaranges.c in libdw allowed a denial of
service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file.

CVE-2018-16402

libelf/elf_end.c in allowed to cause a denial of service (double
free and application crash) because it tried to decompress twice.

CVE-2018-18310

An invalid memory address dereference libdwfl allowed a denial of
service (application crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2018-18520

A use-after-free in recursive ELF ar files allowed a denial of
service (application crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2018-18521

A divide-by-zero in arlib_add_symbols() allowed a denial of service
(application crash) via a crafted file.

CVE-2019-7150

A segmentation fault could occur due to dwfl_segment_report_module()
not checking whether the dyn data read from a core file is truncated.

CVE-2019-7665

NT_PLATFORM core notes contain a zero terminated string allowed a
denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

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Package: elfutils
Version: 0.168-1+deb9u1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-16062 CVE-2018-16402 CVE-2018-18310 CVE-2018-18520
Debian Bug: 907562 911083 911413 911414 920909 921880

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