Issued:

2019-11-05

Updated:

2019-11-05

RHSA-2019:3575 - 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 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.

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#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.

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

Updated Packages

• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-0.176-5.el8.src.rpm
• elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-default-yama-scope-0.176-5.el8.noarch.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-debugsource-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.i686.rpm
• elfutils-libs-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-devel-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.s390x.rpm
• elfutils-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-debuginfo-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.176-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
• elfutils-libs-0.176-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.176-5.el8.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1671432
• This content is not included.BZ - 1671443
• This content is not included.BZ - 1671446
• This content is not included.BZ - 1674430
• This content is not included.BZ - 1677536
• This content is not included.BZ - 1677538
• This content is not included.BZ - 1705138

CVEs

• CVE-2019-7146
• CVE-2019-7149
• CVE-2019-7150
• CVE-2019-7664
• CVE-2019-7665

References

• 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/

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.