Resource exhaustion in elfutils - CVE-2019-7148

Vulnerability identifier: #VU17375

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7148

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in the libelf component due to improper handling of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files by the read_long_names function, as defined in the elf_begin.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing an ELF file that submits malicious input and cause the affected application to improperly allocate excessive memory resources, resulting in a DoS condition.

elfutils
Arch Linux
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Linux Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
openSUSE Leap
Fedora
elfutils (Alpine package)
elfutils
libebl-plugins-debuginfo
elfutils-lang
libelf1-32bit-debuginfo
libelf1-32bit
libelf-devel-32bit
libebl-plugins-32bit-debuginfo
libebl-plugins-32bit
libdw1-32bit-debuginfo
libdw1-32bit
libasm1-32bit-debuginfo
libasm1-32bit
libelf1-debuginfo
libelf1
libelf-devel
libebl-plugins
libdw1-debuginfo
libdw1
libdw-devel
libasm1-debuginfo
libasm1
libebl-devel
elfutils-debuginfo
libasm-devel
elfutils-debugsource
libdwarves-devel-32bit
dwarves
dwarves-debuginfo
dwarves-debugsource
libdwarves1-32bit-debuginfo
libdwarves1-32bit
libdwarves-devel
libdwarves1
libdwarves1-debuginfo

Cybersecurity Help in currently unaware of any official solution to address the vulnerability.

elfutils (Alpine package) - update to 0.178-r0
elfutils - update to 0.176-1.fc29
libebl-plugins-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils-lang - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf-devel-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-32bit - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
elfutils-debugsource - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdwarves-devel-32bit - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
dwarves - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
dwarves-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
dwarves-debugsource - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-32bit - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves-devel - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1 - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24085

• Denial of service in elfutils
• Arch Linux update for libelf
• Resource exhaustion in elfutils (Alpine package)
• SUSE update for dwarves and elfutils
• Fedora 29 update for elfutils