Segmentation fault in elfutils - CVE-2019-7665

Vulnerability identifier: #VU17718

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-2019-7665

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists in the ebl_core_note function due to improper check if the values of a NT_PLATFORM core file note is a zero-terminated string. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening an Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file that submits malicious input, trigger a segmentation fault that causes the affected application to crash, resulting in a DoS condition. 

elfutils
Arch Linux
SUSE Manager Proxy
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SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
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Fedora
elfutils (Alpine package)
libelf1 (Ubuntu package)
libdw1 (Ubuntu package)
libasm1 (Ubuntu package)
elfutils (Ubuntu package)
elfutils
elfutils (Red Hat package)
libdw1-32bit-debuginfo
elfutils-lang
libelf1-32bit-debuginfo
libelf1-32bit
libelf-devel-32bit
libebl-plugins-32bit-debuginfo
libebl-plugins-32bit
libdw1-32bit
libasm1-32bit-debuginfo
libasm1-32bit
libelf1-debuginfo
libelf-devel
elfutils-debuginfo
elfutils-debugsource
libasm-devel
libasm1
libasm1-debuginfo
libdw-devel
libdw1
libdw1-debuginfo
libebl-devel
libelf1
libebl-plugins-debuginfo
libebl-plugins
dwarves
libdwarves1
dwarves-debuginfo
dwarves-debugsource
libdwarves-devel-32bit
libdwarves1-32bit
libdwarves1-32bit-debuginfo
libdwarves1-debuginfo
libdwarves-devel
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Install updates from vendor's website.

elfutils (Alpine package) - update to 0.178-r0
libelf1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
libdw1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
libasm1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
elfutils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.176-1.1ubuntu0.1
elfutils - update to 0.176-1.fc29
elfutils (Red Hat package) - update to 0.176-2.el7
libdw1-32bit-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 - 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
libelf-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
elfutils-debugsource - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libasm1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libdw1-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-devel - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libelf1 - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins-debuginfo - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
libebl-plugins - update to 0.177-150300.11.3.1
dwarves - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1 - 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
libdwarves-devel-32bit - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-32bit - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-32bit-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves1-debuginfo - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
libdwarves-devel - update to 1.22-150300.7.3.1
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 2.10.61
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 3.0.17, 4.0.9
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 3.0.17, 4.0.9

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24089

• Denial of service in elfutils
• Arch Linux update for libelf
• Red Hat update for elfutils
• Segmentation fault in elfutils (Alpine package)
• OpenSUSE Linux update for elfutils
• SUSE update for dwarves and elfutils
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 update for elfutils
• Ubuntu update for elfutils
• VMware Tanzu products update for elfutils
• Fedora 29 update for elfutils