{"id":"USN-2188-1","summary":"elfutils vulnerability","details":"Florian Weimer discovered that the elfutils libdw library incorrectly\nhandled malformed compressed debug sections in ELF files. If a user or\nautomated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ELF file,\napplications linked against libdw could be made to crash, or possibly\nexecute arbitrary code.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T08:52:17.300072Z","published":"2014-04-30T14:50:14Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0172"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-0172","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0172"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2188-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0172"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"elfutils","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/elfutils@0.158-0ubuntu5.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.158-0ubuntu5.1"}]}],"versions":["0.157-1ubuntu1","0.158-0ubuntu3","0.158-0ubuntu4","0.158-0ubuntu5"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.1","binary_name":"elfutils"},{"binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.1","binary_name":"libasm1"},{"binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.1","binary_name":"libdw1"},{"binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.1","binary_name":"libelf1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2188-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2014-0172"}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}