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Bug 1625051 - CVE-2018-16402 elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections in crafted ELF causes crash [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2018-16402 elfutils: Double-free due to double decompression of sections ...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: elfutils
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mark Wielaard
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-04 04:27 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2018-10-02 16:01 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: elfutils-0.174-1.fc29 elfutils-0.174-1.fc28
Doc Type: Release Note
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Last Closed: 2018-09-30 23:25:00 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-04 04:27:25 UTC 
This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
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Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-09-04 04:27:30 UTC 
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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bugs=1625050,1625051

# Description of your update
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======

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Comment 2 Sam Fowler 2018-09-04 04:30:45 UTC 
Reproduces on F28 with elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64:

# eu-nm CVE-2018-16402 2>&1 | ./asan_symbolizer.py 
eu-nm: CVE-2018-16402: entry size in section 1 `(null)' is not what we expect
=================================================================
==44==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: attempting double-free on 0x604000000390 in thread T0:
    #0 0x7f8fab1f4880 in __interceptor_free (/lib64/libasan.so.5+0xee880)
    #1 0x7f8faabdf884 in elf_end (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xd884)
    #2 0x7f8faae81dc5 in free_file dwfl_module.c:57
    #3 0x7f8faae821f2 in __libdwfl_module_free dwfl_module.c:113
    #4 0x7f8faae8195b in dwfl_end (/lib64/libdw.so.1+0x6c95b)
    #0 0x5592a1cb900c in ?? /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1495
    #1 0x5592a1cbb055 in ?? /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1579
    #2 0x5592a1cbbee2 in ?? /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:375
    #3 0x5592a1cb5538 in ?? /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:250
    #9 0x7f8faa08824a in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2324a)
    #4 0x5592a1cb57f9 in ?? ??:0

0x604000000390 is located 0 bytes inside of 36-byte region [0x604000000390,0x6040000003b4)
freed by thread T0 here:
    #0 0x7f8fab1f4880 in __interceptor_free (/lib64/libasan.so.5+0xee880)
    #1 0x7f8faac07f97 in __libelf_reset_rawdata /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/libelf/elf_compress.c:325
    #2 0x7f8faac08455 in elf_compress (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0x36455)
    #3 0x7f8faae86d33 in relocate_section relocate.c:507
    #4 0x7f8faae87c0a in __libdwfl_relocate relocate.c:752
    #5 0x7f8faae96309 in load_dw dwfl_module_getdwarf.c:1335
    #6 0x7f8faae969a7 in find_dw dwfl_module_getdwarf.c:1390
    #5 0x5592a1cb5e3f in getdbg_dwflmod /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1191
    #8 0x7f8faae8d254 in dwfl_getmodules (/lib64/libdw.so.1+0x78254)
    #6 0x5592a1cb9a1d in show_symbols /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1277
    #7 0x5592a1cbb055 in handle_elf /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1579
    #8 0x5592a1cbbee2 in process_file /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:375
    #9 0x5592a1cb5538 in main /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:250
    #13 0x7f8faa08824a in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2324a)

previously allocated by thread T0 here:
    #0 0x7f8fab1f4c48 in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.5+0xeec48)
    #1 0x7f8faac075fa in __libelf_decompress /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/libelf/elf_compress.c:223
    #2 0x7f8faac09288 in elf_compress_gnu (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0x37288)
    #3 0x7f8faae86dab in relocate_section relocate.c:504
    #4 0x7f8faae87c0a in __libdwfl_relocate relocate.c:752
    #5 0x7f8faae96309 in load_dw dwfl_module_getdwarf.c:1335
    #6 0x7f8faae969a7 in find_dw dwfl_module_getdwarf.c:1390
    #10 0x5592a1cb5e3f in getdbg_dwflmod /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1191
    #8 0x7f8faae8d254 in dwfl_getmodules (/lib64/libdw.so.1+0x78254)
    #11 0x5592a1cb9a1d in show_symbols /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1277
    #12 0x5592a1cbb055 in handle_elf /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:1579
    #13 0x5592a1cbbee2 in process_file /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:375
    #14 0x5592a1cb5538 in main /usr/src/debug/elfutils-0.173-1.fc28.x86_64/src/nm.c:250
    #13 0x7f8faa08824a in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2324a)

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: double-free (/lib64/libasan.so.5+0xee880) in __interceptor_free
==44==ABORTING
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-09-14 13:23:17 UTC 
elfutils-0.174-1.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-32c8599fe1
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2018-09-14 20:01:21 UTC 
elfutils-0.174-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-32c8599fe1
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-09-29 09:18:06 UTC 
elfutils-0.174-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1eec1f0d17
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-09-30 03:03:48 UTC 
elfutils-0.174-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1eec1f0d17
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-09-30 23:25:00 UTC 
elfutils-0.174-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2018-10-02 16:01:54 UTC 
elfutils-0.174-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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