RedHat: Low: binutils security update RHSA-2005:659-01
Summary
Summary
Binutils is a collection of utilities used for the creation of executable code. A number of bugs were found in various binutils tools. Several integer overflow bugs were found in binutils. If a user is tricked into processing a specially crafted executable with utilities such as readelf, size, strings, objdump, or nm, it may allow the execution of arbitrary code as the user running the utility. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1704 to this issue. Additionally, the following bugs have been fixed: - -- correct alignment of .tbss section if the requested alignment of .tbss is bigger than requested alignment of .tdata section - -- by default issue an error if IA-64 hint@pause instruction is put into the B slot, add assembler command line switch to override this behaviour All users of binutils should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to resolve these issues.
Solution
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5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
157983 - gcc produces inadequate alignment for __thread vars
164364 - CAN-2005-1704 Integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
SRPMS:
64bdd095087e29551e0db7d77def0abb binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.src.rpm
i386:
40f698290ea2271c9452dd40f0d88429 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.i386.rpm
ia64:
d3ec28074b9a8c2c0ff0e91570f1d3a8 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.ia64.rpm
ppc:
80f84bae3f54898f94bfca3f63281fe9 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.ppc.rpm
s390:
2decc07a7a4765f8b51c5a6e346a6ab9 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.s390.rpm
s390x:
525405b42381b13512b184ba2c43a12b binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
3ea049872ff3705f9e6bfe42a8a3f964 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Desktop version 3:
SRPMS:
64bdd095087e29551e0db7d77def0abb binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.src.rpm
i386:
40f698290ea2271c9452dd40f0d88429 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.i386.rpm
x86_64:
3ea049872ff3705f9e6bfe42a8a3f964 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3:
SRPMS:
64bdd095087e29551e0db7d77def0abb binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.src.rpm
i386:
40f698290ea2271c9452dd40f0d88429 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.i386.rpm
ia64:
d3ec28074b9a8c2c0ff0e91570f1d3a8 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.ia64.rpm
x86_64:
3ea049872ff3705f9e6bfe42a8a3f964 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3:
SRPMS:
64bdd095087e29551e0db7d77def0abb binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.src.rpm
i386:
40f698290ea2271c9452dd40f0d88429 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.i386.rpm
ia64:
d3ec28074b9a8c2c0ff0e91570f1d3a8 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.ia64.rpm
x86_64:
3ea049872ff3705f9e6bfe42a8a3f964 binutils-2.14.90.0.4-39.x86_64.rpm
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References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1704
Package List
Topic
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64
Bugs Fixed