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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:1475-1 Moderate: binutils DoS and Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2021
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An update notice for openSUSE concerning moderate enhancements for binutils has been released, targeting several vulnerabilities and providing necessary resolutions.
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities, contains four features and has 5 fixes is now available

Description

This update for binutils fixes the following issues:

Update to binutils 2.37:

* The GNU Binutils sources now requires a C99 compiler and library to

build.

* Support for Realm Management Extension (RME) for AArch64 has been added.

* A new linker option '-z report-relative-reloc' for x86 ELF targets has

been added to report dynamic relative relocations.

* A new linker option '-z start-stop-gc' has been added to disable special

treatment of __start_*/__stop_* references when

--gc-sections.

* A new linker options '-Bno-symbolic' has been added which will cancel

the '-Bsymbolic' and '-Bsymbolic-functions' options.

* The readelf tool has a new command line option which can be used to

specify how the numeric values of symbols are reported.

--sym-base=0|8|10|16 tells readelf to display the values in base 8, base

10 or base 16. A sym base of 0 represents the default action

of displaying values under 10000 in base 10 and...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service buffer overflow memory corruption binutils openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1475=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

binutils-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

binutils-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

binutils-debugsource-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

binutils-devel-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

binutils-gold-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

libctf-nobfd0-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

libctf-nobfd0-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

libctf0-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

libctf0-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

bpftrace-tools-0.11.4-lp152.2.7.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

binutils-devel-32bit-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

bpftrace-0.11.4-lp152.2.7.1

cross-aarch64-binutils-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-aarch64-binutils-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-aarch64-binutils-debugsource-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-arm-binutils-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-arm-binutils-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-arm-binutils-debugsource-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-avr-binutils-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-avr-binutils-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-avr-binutils-debugsource-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-epiphany-binutils-2.37-lp152.4.9.1

cross-epiphany-binutils-debuginfo-2.37-lp152.4.9....

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16590.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16591.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16592.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16593.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16598.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16599.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35448.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35493.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35496.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35507.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20197.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20284.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20294.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3487.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179898

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179899

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179900

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179901

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179902

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179903

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180451

https://bugzilla.suse.com/11...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1475-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service buffer overflow memory corruption binutils openSUSE

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