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RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2019-3575-1 Low: Elfutils Security Issue

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
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An update for elfutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The elfutils packages contain a number of utility programs and libraries related to the creation and maintenance of executable code.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: elfutils (0.176). (BZ#1683705)
Security Fix(es):
* elfutils: buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note function in eblobjnote.c in libebl (CVE-2019-7146)
* elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw (CVE-2019-7149)
* elfutils: segmentation fault in elf64_xlatetom in libelf/elf32_xlatetom.c (CVE-2019-7150)
* elfutils: out of bound write in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h (CVE-2019-7664)
* elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c (CVE-2019-7665)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix low severity elfutils

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7146 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7149 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7150 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7664 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7665 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: elfutils-0.176-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: elfutils-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: elfutils-default-yama-scope-0.176-5.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: elfutils-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: elfutils-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3575-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for elfutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix low severity elfutils

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1671432 - CVE-2019-7146 elfutils: buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note function in eblobjnote.c in libebl

1671443 - CVE-2019-7149 elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw

1671446 - CVE-2019-7150 elfutils: segmentation fault in elf64_xlatetom in libelf/elf32_xlatetom.c

1674430 - RFE: support reading compressed ELF objects

1677536 - CVE-2019-7664 elfutils: out of bound write in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h

1677538 - CVE-2019-7665 elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c

1705138 - elfutils xlate (cross-endian) functions might not convert an ELF Note header

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