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SUSE: Security Fixes for binutils - Moderate Severity - 2021:3616-1

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2021
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This release from SUSE tackles 13 concerns, rolls out enhancements, and includes vital corrections for binutils.
An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities, contains four features and has one errata 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 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. --sym-base=0|8|10|16 tells readelf to display the values in base 8, base

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security advisory security issue software update moderate severity fixes SUSE Linux binutils

References

#1179898 #1179899 #1179900 #1179901 #1179902

#1179903 #1180451 #1180454 #1180461 #1181452

#1182252 #1183511 #1184620 #1184794 PM-2767

SLE-18637 SLE-19618 SLE-21561

Cross- 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-2020-16590 (NVD) : 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2020-16590 (SUSE): 4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVE-2020-16591 (NVD) : 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2020-16591 (SUSE): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2020-16592 (NVD) : 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3616-1
Rating: moderate

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security advisory security issue software update moderate severity fixes SUSE Linux binutils

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