Issued:
2019-08-06
Updated:
2019-08-06

RHSA-2019:2197 - Low: elfutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: elfutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for elfutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

Description

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#1676504)

Security Fix(es):

  • elfutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in libdw/dwarf_getaranges.c:dwarf_getaranges() via crafted file (CVE-2018-16062)

  • elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections in crafted ELF causes crash (CVE-2018-16402)

  • elfutils: Heap-based buffer over-read in libdw/dwarf_getabbrev.c and libwd/dwarf_hasattr.c causes crash (CVE-2018-16403)

  • elfutils: invalid memory address dereference was discovered in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl (CVE-2018-18310)

  • elfutils: eu-size cannot handle recursive ar files (CVE-2018-18520)

  • elfutils: Divide-by-zero in arlib_add_symbols function in arlib.c (CVE-2018-18521)

  • 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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-0.176-2.el7.src.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-default-yama-scope-0.176-2.el7.noarch.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.s390.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-0.176-2.el7.s390x.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-0.176-2.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-2.el7.ppc.rpm
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • elfutils-libs-0.176-2.el7.i686.rpm
  • elfutils-devel-0.176-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information