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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : elfutils vulnerability (USN-2188-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73802

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2188-1 advisory.

 Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly handled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file, applications linked against libdw could be made to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2188-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73802

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2188-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0172

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elfutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0172

BID: 66714

USN: 2188-1