A binutils security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2020:4465-01: Low: binutils security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: binutils security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4465-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4465
Issue date: 2020-11-03
CVE Names: CVE-2019-17450
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1. Summary:
An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
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: denial of service via crafted ELF file (CVE-2019-17450)
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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1678323 - binutils fails to compile with -fsanitize=address
1771677 - CVE-2019-17450 binutils: denial of service via crafted ELF file
1807308 - objcopy can not embed data to shared library, and --set-section-flags donot work with "share" flag.
1869401 - Backport "x86: don't mistakenly scale non-8-bit displacements"
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64:
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.aarch64.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.aarch64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-79.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.ppc64le.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.ppc64le.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-79.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.s390x.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.s390x.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-79.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.i686.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.i686.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.x86_64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-79.el8.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-79.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source:
binutils-2.30-79.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
binutils-2.30-79.el8.aarch64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.aarch64.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
binutils-2.30-79.el8.ppc64le.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.ppc64le.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
binutils-2.30-79.el8.s390x.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.s390x.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
binutils-2.30-79.el8.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.30-79.el8.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debugsource-2.30-79.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17450
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
