RHEA-2015:0369Medium

Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: elfutils bug fix and enhancement update

Published
March 5, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2014-0172 — elfutils: integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in libdw

🎯 Affected products114

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-0:0.160-1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • elfutils-debuginfo-0:0.160-1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (3)