Agostino Sarubbo discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file, elfutils could be made to crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
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#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3670-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
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include('compat.inc');
if (description)
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"CVE-2017-7611",
"CVE-2017-7612",
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script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3670-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : elfutils vulnerabilities (USN-3670-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Agostino Sarubbo discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain
malformed ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted ELF file, elfutils could be made to
crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-7613");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/03/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/06/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/06/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elfutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
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script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include('debian_package.inc');
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release || '16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'elfutils', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libasm-dev', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libasm1', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libdw-dev', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libdw1', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libelf-dev', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libelf1', 'pkgver': '0.158-0ubuntu5.3'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'elfutils', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libasm-dev', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libasm1', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libdw-dev', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libdw1', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libelf-dev', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libelf1', 'pkgver': '0.165-3ubuntu1.1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var osver = NULL;
var pkgname = NULL;
var pkgver = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'elfutils / libasm-dev / libasm1 / libdw-dev / libdw1 / libelf-dev / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | elfutils | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elfutils |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libasm-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libasm1 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm1 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libdw-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libdw1 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw1 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libelf-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libelf1 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf1 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10254
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10255
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7607
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7608
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7609
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7610
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7611
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7612
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7613
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1