{"id":"USN-3670-1","summary":"elfutils vulnerabilities","details":"Agostino Sarubbo discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain\nmalformed ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into\nprocessing a specially crafted ELF file, elfutils could be made to crash or\nconsume resources, resulting in a denial of service.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:46:05.666191Z","published":"2018-06-05T14:13:40Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10254","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10255","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7607","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7608","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7609","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7610","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7611","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7612","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7613"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-10254","CVE-2016-10255","CVE-2017-7607","CVE-2017-7608","CVE-2017-7609","CVE-2017-7610","CVE-2017-7611","CVE-2017-7612","CVE-2017-7613","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10254","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10255","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7607","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7608","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7609","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7610","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7611","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7612","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7613"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3670-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10254"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10255"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7607"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7608"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7609"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7610"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7611"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7612"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7613"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"elfutils","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/elfutils@0.158-0ubuntu5.3?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.158-0ubuntu5.3"}]}],"versions":["0.157-1ubuntu1","0.158-0ubuntu3","0.158-0ubuntu4","0.158-0ubuntu5","0.158-0ubuntu5.1","0.158-0ubuntu5.2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No 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