[Secure-testing-team] Bug#859995: elfutils: CVE-2017-7608

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: elfutils
Version: 0.168-0.2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21300

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for elfutils.

CVE-2017-7608[0]:
| The ebl_object_note_type_name function in eblobjnotetypename.c in
| elfutils 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) 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-2017-7608
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7608
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21300

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore