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Fedora 20 : elfutils-0.158-3.fc20 (2014-5015)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73627

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix CVE-2014-0172 elfutils: integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in libdw. Update to 0.158. Support for aarch64.
Unwinder support for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x, ppc and ppc64. Add eu-stack.

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Solution

Update the affected elfutils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663

http://www.nessus.org/u?804a0ebe

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73627

File Name: fedora_2014-5015.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:elfutils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0172

BID: 66714

FEDORA: 2014-5015