Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : elfutils vulnerability (USN-2188-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2188-1 advisory. Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly handled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or automated system were...

USN-2188-1 elfutils vulnerability

Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly handled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file, applications linked against libdw could be made to crash, or possibly execute...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0172

Integer overflow in the checksection function in dwarfbeginelf.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...