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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-4601-01 Moderate: Binutils Trojan Source Fix

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential security patch for binutils on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 aimed at addressing trojan source threats.
An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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):
* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characterscan cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)
The following changes were introduced in binutils in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:
Tools which display names or strings (readelf, strings, nm, objdump) have a new command line option --unicode / -U which controls how Unicode characters are handled.
Using "--unicode=default" will treat them as normal for the tool. This is the default behaviour when --unicode option is not used. Using "--unicode=locale" will display them according to the current locale. Using "--unicode=hex" will display them as hex byte values. Using "--unicode=escape" will display them as Unicode escape sequences. Using "--unicode=highlight" will display them as Unicode escape sequences highlighted in red, if supported by the output device.
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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42574 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-007

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
aarch64: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.i686.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.i686.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8_2.1.i686.rpm binutils-devel-2.30-73.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: binutils-2.30-73.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: binutils-2.30-73.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: binutils-2.30-73.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: binutils-2.30-73.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm binutils-debuginfo-2.30-73.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm binutils-debugsource-2.30-73.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4601-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2021-11-10

Topic

An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2005819 - CVE-2021-42574 Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks

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