RHEL 8 : elfutils (RHSA-2019:3575)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130553

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3575 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#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.

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?07a34fdd

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8d3b26b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3575

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671432

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671443

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671446

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674430

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677536

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677538

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705138

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130553

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3575.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7665

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7149

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, 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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 11/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7146, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150, CVE-2019-7664, CVE-2019-7665

CWE: 122, 125, 787

RHSA: 2019:3575