USN-2188-1

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    USN-2188-1

    Published: 30 Apr 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: elfutils vulnerability

    Details: Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly handled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file, applications linked against libdw could be made to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2188-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0172

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: elfutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.158-0ubuntu5.1

    Affected versions

    0.157-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High