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RHEL 8 : elfutils (RHSA-2019:3575)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130553

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for elfutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?774148ae

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-7146

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-7149

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-7150

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-7664

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-7665

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130553

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

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2019

Updated: 4/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

RHSA: 2019:3575