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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2023-2873 Update for gcc-toolset-12

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat issues Important security patch for gcc-toolset-12-binutils addressing CVE-2022-4285. Learn more!
An update for gcc-toolset-12-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: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)
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 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Red Hat Enterprise Linux DoS threat security impact binutils gcc-toolset

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4285 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.i686.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.i686.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2873-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2873
Issue date: 2023-05-16

Topic

An update for gcc-toolset-12-binutils is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.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 update Red Hat Enterprise Linux DoS threat security impact binutils gcc-toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2142816 - addr2line from gcc-toolset-11-binutils having errors while compiling code using LTO and Dwarf5

2150768 - CVE-2022-4285 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault

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