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A devtoolset-12-binutils security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.



RHSA-2023:3269-01: Moderate: devtoolset-12-binutils security update



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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: devtoolset-12-binutils security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3269-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3269
Issue date: 2023-05-23
CVE Names: CVE-2021-3826 CVE-2022-4285
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1. Summary:

An update for devtoolset-12-binutils is now available for Red Hat Software
Collections.

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 Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL(v. 7) - 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: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string
leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

* libiberty: Heap/stack buffer overflow in the dlang_lname function in
d-demangle.c (CVE-2021-3826)

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/):

2122627 - CVE-2021-3826 libiberty: Heap/stack buffer overflow in the dlang_lname function in d-demangle.c
2150768 - CVE-2022-4285 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault

6. Package List:

Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7):

Source:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.src.rpm

ppc64:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.ppc64.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.ppc64.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.ppc64.rpm

ppc64le:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.s390x.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.s390x.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.i686.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.i686.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.i686.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL(v. 7):

Source:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.src.rpm

x86_64:
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.i686.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-2.36.1-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.i686.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.36.1-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.i686.rpm
devtoolset-12-binutils-devel-2.36.1-6.el7.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-2021-3826
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4285
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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