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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-4729:02 Moderate: devtoolset-11-annobin Security Fix

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2021
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A patch has been released for devtoolset-11-annobin in Red Hat Software Collections to mitigate potential security vulnerabilities.
An update for devtoolset-11-annobin is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

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

Annobin provides a compiler plugin to annotate and tools to examine compiled binary files.
Security Fix(es):
* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characterscan cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)
The following changes were introduced in annobin in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:
This update of annobin adds a new annocheck test to detect the presence of multibyte characters in symbol names.
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat devtoolset trojan source annobin

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 Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: devtoolset-11-annobin-9.82-1.el7.1.src.rpm
noarch: devtoolset-11-annobin-docs-9.82-1.el7.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64: devtoolset-11-annobin-annocheck-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-debuginfo-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: devtoolset-11-annobin-annocheck-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64le.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-debuginfo-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64le.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: devtoolset-11-annobin-annocheck-9.82-1.el7.1.s390x.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-debuginfo-9.82-1.el7.1.s390x.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc-9.82-1.el7.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: devtoolset-11-annobin-annocheck-9.82-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-debuginfo-9.82-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc-9.82-1.el7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: devtoolset-11-annobin-9.82-1.el7.1.src.rpm
noarch: devtoolset-11-annobin-docs-9.82-1.el7.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64: devtoolset-11-annobin-annocheck-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-debuginfo-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64.rpm devtoolset-11-annobin-plugin-gcc-9.82-1.el7.1.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4729-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4729
Issue date: 2021-11-18

Topic

An update for devtoolset-11-annobin is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat devtoolset trojan source annobin

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, 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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