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SUSE: 2020:3060-1 Moderate Security Fix for Binutils Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch for binutils resolves several vulnerabilities, improving overall system integrity and security protocols.
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities, contains three features and has 5 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for binutils fixes the following issues: binutils was updated to version 2.35. (jsc#ECO-2373) Update to binutils 2.35: * The assembler can now produce DWARF-5 format line number tables. * Readelf now has a "lint" mode to enable extra checks of the files it is processing. * Readelf will now display "[...]" when it has to truncate a symbol name. The old behaviour - of displaying as many characters as possible, up to the 80 column limit - can be restored by the use of the --silent-truncation option. * The linker can now produce a dependency file listing the inputs that it has processed, much like the -M -MP option supported by the compiler. - fix DT_NEEDED order with -flto [bsc#1163744] Update to binutils 2.34: * The disassembler (objdump --disassemble) now has an option to generate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update binutils threat fix SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1126826 #1126829 #1126831 #1140126 #1142649

#1143609 #1153768 #1153770 #1157755 #1160254

#1160590 #1163333 #1163744 ECO-2373 SLE-7464

SLE-7903

Cross- CVE-2019-12972 CVE-2019-14250 CVE-2019-14444

CVE-2019-17450 CVE-2019-17451 CVE-2019-9074

CVE-2019-9075 CVE-2019-9077

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12972.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14250.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3060-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update binutils threat fix SUSE Linux Enterprise

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