USN-3670-1: elfutils vulnerabilities

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...

elfutils: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects. Description An integer overflow, in the checksection function of dwarfbeginelf.c, in the libdw library can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

DLA-388-1 dwarfutils - security update

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