UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0172

Integer overflow in the checksection function in dwarfbegin_elf.c in the libdw library, as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "elfutils"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "libasm-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "libasm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "libdw-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "libdw1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "libelf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.1",
            "binary_name": "libelf1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0172.json"