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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201710-10
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Severity: Normal
Title: elfutils: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: October 13, 2017
Bugs: #614002, #614004, #618004
ID: 201710-10

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in elfutils, the worst of
which may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service
condition.

Background
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Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse
ELF objects.

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-libs/elfutils < 0.169-r1 >= 0.169-r1

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in elfutils. Please
review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Impact
======

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition
via specially crafted ELF files.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All elfutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=dev-libs/elfutils-0.169-r1”

Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools
such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these
packages.

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2016-10254
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10254
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-10255
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10255
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-7607
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7607
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-7608
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7608
[ 5 ] CVE-2017-7609
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7609
[ 6 ] CVE-2017-7610
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7610
[ 7 ] CVE-2017-7611
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7611
[ 8 ] CVE-2017-7612
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7612
[ 9 ] CVE-2017-7613
https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7613

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2017 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

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