RedHat: RHSA-2019-2075:01 Moderate: binutils security and bug fix update
Summary
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: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in objdump
(CVE-2018-1000876)
* binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the demangling functions provided by
libiberty (CVE-2018-12641)
* binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in
cplus-dem.c. (CVE-2018-12697)
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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12641 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12697 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000876 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.src.rpm
x86_64:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64:
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.src.rpm
x86_64:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64:
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.src.rpm
ppc64:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc64le.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc64le.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.s390x.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.s390.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.s390x.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.s390.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.src.rpm
x86_64:
binutils-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-debuginfo-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
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Topic
An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1594410 - CVE-2018-12641 binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the demangling functions provided by libiberty
1595417 - CVE-2018-12697 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c.
1624776 - binutils: ld removes some R_X86_64_JUMP_SLOT relocations
1652587 - Add support for the .attach_to_group pseudo-op to the assembler
1664699 - CVE-2018-1000876 binutils: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in objdump
1670014 - binutils: Enable gold linker on all architectures with upstream implementation
1699745 - Failed ld plt-main/pltgot test cases