Medium: elfutils

Issue Overview:

Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_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.

Affected Packages:

elfutils

Issue Correction:
Run yum update elfutils to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    elfutils-devel-static-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-libelf-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-devel-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-debuginfo-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-libs-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-libelf-devel-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
    elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.158-3.16.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    elfutils-0.158-3.16.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    elfutils-debuginfo-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-devel-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-libelf-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-libelf-devel-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-devel-static-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    elfutils-libs-0.158-3.16.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0172

Mitre: CVE-2014-0172