RHEL 7 : elfutils (RHSA-2019:2197)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127696

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2197 advisory.

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127696

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2197.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-libelf-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-libelf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-default-yama-scope, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:elfutils-libelf-devel-static

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16062, CVE-2018-16402, CVE-2018-16403, CVE-2018-18310, CVE-2018-18520, CVE-2018-18521, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150, CVE-2019-7664, CVE-2019-7665

CWE: 119, 122, 125, 369, 416, 787

RHSA: 2019:2197

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