UbuntuUSN-2482-1elfutils vulnerability
6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.009 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.3%
Releases
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 12.04
- Ubuntu 10.04
Packages
- elfutils - collection of utilities to handle ELF objects
Details
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain
filesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw
to perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process
extracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory.
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | libelf1 | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | elfutils | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | libasm-dev | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | libasm1 | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | libdw-dev | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | libdw1 | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.10 | noarch | libelf-dev | < 0.160-0ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | libelf1 | < 0.158-0ubuntu5.2 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | elfutils | < 0.158-0ubuntu5.2 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | libasm-dev | < 0.158-0ubuntu5.2 | UNKNOWN |
References
Related
6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.009 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.3%