gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201612-32.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-32">
  <title>elfutils: Heap-based buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in elfutils might allow
    remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. 
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">elfutils</product>
  <announced>2016-12-13</announced>
  <revised count="2">2016-12-13</revised>
  <bug>507246</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/elfutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.159</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.159</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse
      ELF objects.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An integer overflow, in the check_section function of dwarf_begin_elf.c,
      in the libdw library can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
      possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges
      of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All elfutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/elfutils-0.159"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0172">CVE-2014-0172</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-22T14:55:36Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-13T06:58:39Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>