[Cucumber-linux-security] elfutils (security update is available)

[Scott C. <sc...@cu...>]

  Update Information

A security update is available for elfutils for the following versions
of Cucumber Linux:

  * 1.0
  * 1.1

Here are the details from the Cucumber 1.1 changelog:

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Wed Sep 5 20:35:40 EDT 2018
dev-general/elfutils rebuilt (build 4) to fix CVE-2018-16402, a security
	vulnerability that allowed for a remote attacker to cause a denial of
	service or possibly have other unspecified impacts due to elfutils
	attempting to decompress twice. For more information see:
		https://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=539
		https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16402
multilib/dev-general/elfutils-lib_i686 rebuilt (build 4, x86_64 only)
* SECURITY FIX *
+----------------+

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  CLD and CVE Information

This update is associated with the following Cucumber Linux Deficiency
(CLD) and CVE numbers:

  * CLD-539 [CVE-2018-16402]
    (https://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=539)

More information about these CLDs can be found at their respective pages
on the Cucumber Linux Security Advisory Tracker (these are the URLs in
parenthesis above).

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  Installing the Update

The updated package can be installed via Pickle by running the following
commands (as root):

# pickle --update
# pickle

Make sure elfutils is selected on the update list, and then select Ok.
Pickle will then install the updated package.

If you prefer to download the updated package manually, it can be found
on the mirror at http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/.

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