An annobin security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2021:4593-04: Moderate: annobin security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: annobin security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4593-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4593
Issue date: 2021-11-10
CVE Names: CVE-2021-42574
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1. Summary:
An update for annobin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. 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
3. Description:
Annobin provides a compiler plugin to annotate and tools to examine
compiled binary files.
Security Fix(es):
* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters
can cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)
The following changes were introduced in annobin in order to facilitate
detection of BiDi Unicode characters:
This update of annobin adds a new annocheck test to detect the presence of
multibyte characters in symbol names.
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.
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/):
2005819 - CVE-2021-42574 Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
annobin-9.72-1.el8_5.2.src.rpm
aarch64:
annobin-9.72-1.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm
annobin-annocheck-9.72-1.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm
annobin-annocheck-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm
annobin-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm
annobin-debugsource-9.72-1.el8_5.2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
annobin-9.72-1.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
annobin-annocheck-9.72-1.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
annobin-annocheck-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
annobin-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
annobin-debugsource-9.72-1.el8_5.2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
annobin-9.72-1.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm
annobin-annocheck-9.72-1.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm
annobin-annocheck-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm
annobin-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm
annobin-debugsource-9.72-1.el8_5.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
annobin-9.72-1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm
annobin-annocheck-9.72-1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm
annobin-annocheck-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm
annobin-debuginfo-9.72-1.el8_5.2.x86_64.rpm
annobin-debugsource-9.72-1.el8_5.2.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-2021-42574
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-007
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2021 Red Hat, Inc.
