Debian DLA-3579-1 : elfutils - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181835

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3579 advisory.

- The libcpu component which is used by libasm of elfutils version 0.177 (git 47780c9e), suffers from denial-of-service vulnerability caused by application crashes due to out-of-bounds write (CWE-787), off- by-one error (CWE-193) and reachable assertion (CWE-617); to exploit the vulnerability, the attackers need to craft certain ELF files which bypass the missing bound checks. (CVE-2020-21047)

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

Solution

Upgrade the elfutils packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 0.176-1.1+deb10u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181835

File Name: debian_DLA-3579.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2023

Updated: 9/24/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-21047

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:elfutils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libasm-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libasm1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdw-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdw1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libelf-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libelf1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-21047

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