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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-4336-1 Critical: binutils Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Several security vulnerabilities in GNU binutils for Ubuntu 18.04 have been fixed, including steps for resolution.
Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils.

Software Description:

- binutils: GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities

Details:

It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security

issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a

specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to

crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution Ubuntu binutils

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  binutils                        2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3
  binutils-multiarch              2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-1

CVE-2018-1000876, CVE-2018-10372, CVE-2018-10373, CVE-2018-10534,

CVE-2018-10535, CVE-2018-12641, CVE-2018-12697, CVE-2018-12698,

CVE-2018-12699, CVE-2018-12700, CVE-2018-12934, CVE-2018-13033,

CVE-2018-17358, CVE-2018-17359, CVE-2018-17360, CVE-2018-17794,

CVE-2018-17985, CVE-2018-18309, CVE-2018-18483, CVE-2018-18484,

CVE-2018-18605, CVE-2018-18606, CVE-2018-18607, CVE-2018-18700,

CVE-2018-18701, CVE-2018-19931, CVE-2018-19932, CVE-2018-20002,

CVE-2018-20623, CVE-2018-20651, CVE-2018-20671, CVE-2018-8945,

CVE-2018-9138, CVE-2019-12972, CVE-2019-14250, CVE-2019-14444,

CVE-2019-17450, CVE-2019-17451, CVE-2019-9070, CVE-2019-9071,

CVE-2019-9073, CVE-2019-9074, CVE-2019-9075, CVE-2019-9077

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April 22, 2020

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution Ubuntu binutils

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3

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