Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHSA-2018:3032 - Low: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: binutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

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 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.

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: Improper bounds check in coffgen.c:coff_pointerize_aux() allows for denial of service when parsing a crafted COFF file (CVE-2018-7208)

  • binutils: integer overflow via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information in libbfd library (CVE-2018-7568)

  • binutils: integer underflow or overflow via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF FORM block in libbfd library (CVE-2018-7569)

  • binutils: NULL pointer dereference in swap_std_reloc_in function in aoutx.h resulting in crash (CVE-2018-7642)

  • binutils: Integer overflow in the display_debug_ranges function resulting in crash (CVE-2018-7643)

  • binutils: Crash in elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() with crafted executable (CVE-2018-8945)

  • binutils: Heap-base buffer over-read in dwarf.c:process_cu_tu_index() allows for denial of service via crafted file (CVE-2018-10372)

  • binutils: NULL pointer dereference in dwarf2.c:concat_filename() allows for denial of service via crafted file (CVE-2018-10373)

  • binutils: out of bounds memory write in peXXigen.c files (CVE-2018-10534)

  • binutils: NULL pointer dereference in elf.c (CVE-2018-10535)

  • binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in execution of nm (CVE-2018-13033)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 97ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 647aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.s390.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.i686.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-34.base.el7.src.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-34.base.el7.s390x.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-34.base.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.s390.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.i686.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • binutils-2.27-34.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.aarch64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • binutils-devel-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc.rpm
  • binutils-debuginfo-2.27-34.base.el7.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information