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Ubuntu: 4012-1 Critical: Elfutils DoS Threat and Remediation

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5023-2 highlights vulnerabilities in nmap that impact various iterations and provides solutions for remediation.
Several security issues were fixed in elfutils.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in elfutils.

Software Description:

- elfutils: collection of utilities to handle ELF objects

Details:

It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed

files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a

specially crafted file, elfutils could be made to crash or consume

resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Ubuntu elfutils resource consumption

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10:
  elfutils                        0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1
  libasm1                         0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1
  libdw1                          0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1
  libelf1                         0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  elfutils                        0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
  libasm1                         0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
  libdw1                          0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
  libelf1                         0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  elfutils                        0.165-3ubuntu1.2
  libasm1                         0.165-3ubuntu1.2
  libdw1                          0.165-3ubuntu1.2
  libelf1                         0.165-3ubuntu1.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4012-1

CVE-2018-16062, CVE-2018-16402, CVE-2018-16403, CVE-2018-18310,

CVE-2018-18520, CVE-2018-18521, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150,

CVE-2019-7665

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June 10, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Ubuntu elfutils resource consumption

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.170-0.5.0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.170-0.4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/elfutils/0.165-3ubuntu1.2

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