[Secure-testing-team] Bug#859990: elfutils: CVE-2017-7613

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: elfutils
Version: 0.168-0.2
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21312

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for elfutils.

CVE-2017-7613[0]:
| elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections
| and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a
| denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7613
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7613
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21312

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore