Advisories » MGASA-2014-0177

Updated elfutils package fixes CVE-2014-0172

Publication date: 16 Apr 2014
Modification date: 16 Apr 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0172

Description

Updated elfutils packages fix security vulnerability:

The libdw library provides support for accessing DWARF debugging information
inside ELF files. An integer overflow flaw in check_section(), leading to a
heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the libdw library. A malicious ELF
file could cause an application using libdw (such as eu-readelf) to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
the application (CVE-2014-0172).
                

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13181
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0172

SRPMS

3/core

• elfutils-0.155-2.1.mga3

4/core

• elfutils-0.157-3.1.mga4