CVE-2014-0172 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the check_section function in dwarf_begin_elf.c in the libdw library as used in elfutils 0.153 and possibly through 0.158 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed compressed debug section in an ELF file which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Reference

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/54 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66714 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2188-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085663 https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-April/003921.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-32