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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2188-1 Critical: elfutils Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2014
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Debian Security Notice DSN-1123-2 highlights a critical glibc vulnerability affecting various versions.
elfutils could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted file.

Summary

elfutils could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially

crafted file.

Software Description:

- elfutils: collection of utilities to handle ELF objects

Details:

Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly

handled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or

automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file,

applications linked against libdw could be made to crash, or possibly

execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical package update ubuntu elfutils execution risk libdw

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libdw1                          0.158-0ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 13.10:
  libdw1                          0.157-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  libdw1                          0.153-1ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2188-1

CVE-2014-0172

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April 30, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical package update ubuntu elfutils execution risk libdw

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.158-0ubuntu5.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.157-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.153-1ubuntu1.1

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