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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2020:1797-01 Low Severity: Binutils Update

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.
Security Fix(es):
* binutils: integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c (CVE-2019-17451)
* binutils: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read in gold/fileread.cc and elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-1010204)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity binutils

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17451 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010204 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.aarch64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.aarch64.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.ppc64le.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.ppc64le.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.s390x.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.s390x.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.i686.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.x86_64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.i686.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.x86_64.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8.i686.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: binutils-2.30-73.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: binutils-2.30-73.el8.aarch64.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.aarch64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: binutils-2.30-73.el8.ppc64le.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.ppc64le.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: binutils-2.30-73.el8.s390x.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.s390x.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: binutils-2.30-73.el8.x86_64.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8.x86_64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1797-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1797
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity binutils

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1726637 - Request a backport of fixes for SVE Vector PCS on AArch64 (binutils part)

1730906 - ld -r fails to handle .init_array section in comdat group

1735604 - CVE-2019-1010204 binutils: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read in gold/fileread.cc and elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h leads to denial of service

1767711 - Upstream test case "v3 gnu build attribute notes (64-bit)" failed

1771668 - CVE-2019-17451 binutils: integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c

1777002 - Implement workaround in assembler for Intel's JCC errata [RHEL 8.2]

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