gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201710-10.xml

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<glsa id="201710-10">
  <title>elfutils: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in elfutils, the worst of
    which may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">elfutils</product>
  <announced>2017-10-13</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-10-13</revised>
  <bug>614002</bug>
  <bug>614004</bug>
  <bug>618004</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/elfutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.169-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.169-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse
      ELF objects.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in elfutils. Please review
      the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via
      specially crafted ELF files.
    </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-0.169-r1"
    </code>
    
    <p>Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools
      such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10254">
      CVE-2016-10254
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10255">
      CVE-2016-10255
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7607">
      CVE-2017-7607
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7608">
      CVE-2017-7608
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7609">
      CVE-2017-7609
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7610">
      CVE-2017-7610
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7611">
      CVE-2017-7611
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7612">
      CVE-2017-7612
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7613">
      CVE-2017-7613
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-08T18:46:38Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-13T22:31:20Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>