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Fedora 28 : elfutils (2018-1eec1f0d17)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 120279

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2018-16062, CVE-2018-16402 and CVE-2018-16403. unstrip:
Handle SHT_GROUP sections. strip: Handle mixed (out of order) allocated/non-allocated sections. elfcompress: Don't rewrite input file if no section data needs updating. Try harder to keep same file mode bits (suid) on rewrite. libelf, libdw and all tools now handle extended shnum and shstrndx correctly.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected elfutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1eec1f0d17

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 120279

File Name: fedora_2018-1eec1f0d17.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16402

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:elfutils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16062, CVE-2018-16402, CVE-2018-16403