SUSE: 2021:3593-1 Moderate: Binutils Fixes and Heap Overflow
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November 2, 2021
An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities, contains 7 features and has 8 fixes is now available
Summary
This update for binutils fixes the following issues: Update to binutils 2.37: * The GNU Binutils sources now requires a C99 compiler and library to build. * Support for the arm-symbianelf format has been removed. * Support for Realm Management Extension (RME) for AArch64 has been added. * A new linker option '-z report-relative-reloc' for x86 ELF targets has been added to report dynamic relative relocations. * A new linker option '-z start-stop-gc' has been added to disable special treatment of __start_*/__stop_* references when --gc-sections. * A new linker options '-Bno-symbolic' has been added which will cancel the '-Bsymbolic' and '-Bsymbolic-functions' options. * The readelf tool has a new command line option which can be used to specify how the numeric values of symbols are reported.
References
#1126826 #1126829 #1126831 #1140126 #1142649
#1143609 #1153768 #1153770 #1157755 #1160254
#1160590 #1163333 #1163744 #1179036 #1179341
#1179898 #1179899 #1179900 #1179901 #1179902
#1179903 #1180451 #1180454 #1180461 #1181452
#1182252 #1183511 #1184620 #1184794 ECO-2373
PM-2767 SLE-18637 SLE-19618 SLE-21561 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 CVE-2020-16590
CVE-2020-16591 CVE-2020-16592 CVE-2020-16593
CVE-2020-16598 CVE-2020-16599 CVE-2020-35448
CVE-2020-35493 CVE-2020-35496 CVE-2020-35507
CVE-2021-20197 CVE-2021-20284 CVE-2021-3487
CVSS scores:
CVE-2019-12972 (NVD) : 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3593-1
Rating: moderate
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