Bug 614004 (CVE-2016-10254)

Summary:	<dev-libs/elfutils-0.168: memory allocation failure in allocate_elf (common.h)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	EoD, toolchain
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/
Whiteboard:	A3 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	618004
Bug Blocks:

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-03-27 08:37:56 UTC

Details at $URL.


@maintainer(s): since the fixed package is already in the tree, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

Comment 1 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2017-03-29 07:39:29 UTC

 CVE ID: CVE-2016-10254
   Summary: The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.
 Published: 2017-03-23T16:59:00.000Z

Comment 2 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2017-04-30 16:29:51 UTC

Ping on stabilization. .. are we ready to go stable?

Comment 3 EoD 2017-10-06 18:27:59 UTC

The tree only contains >=dev-libs/elfutils-0.169-r1 anymore.

Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-10-13 22:33:17 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201710-10 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).