Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
elfutils on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 13.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-0172 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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