USN-2188-1

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / elfutils

Package

Name: elfutils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/elfutils@0.158-0ubuntu5.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.158-0ubuntu5.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.157-1ubuntu1

0.158-0ubuntu3

0.158-0ubuntu4

0.158-0ubuntu5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "elfutils",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libasm1",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libdw1",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libelf1",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2188-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-0172",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}