RHSA-2019:3575 — Security Advisory

An update for elfutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The elfutils packages contain a number of utility programs and libraries related to the creation and maintenance of executable code.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: elfutils (0.176). (BZ#1683705)

Security Fix(es):

• elfutils: buffer over-read in the ebl_object_note function in eblobjnote.c in libebl (CVE-2019-7146)

• elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in read_srclines in dwarf_getsrclines.c in libdw (CVE-2019-7149)

• elfutils: segmentation fault in elf64_xlatetom in libelf/elf32_xlatetom.c (CVE-2019-7150)

• elfutils: out of bound write in elf_cvt_note in libelf/note_xlate.h (CVE-2019-7664)

• elfutils: heap-based buffer over-read in function elf32_xlatetom in elf32_xlatetom.c (CVE-2019-7665)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.