Issued:

2021-11-09

Updated:

2021-11-09

RHSA-2021:4364 - Moderate: binutils security update

Synopsis

Moderate: binutils security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for binutils 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.

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: Excessive debug section size can cause excessive memory consumption in bfd's dwarf2.c read_section() (CVE-2021-3487)

• binutils: Race window allows users to own arbitrary files (CVE-2021-20197)

• binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_getl_signed_32() in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section() in elf.c (CVE-2020-35448)

• binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c (CVE-2021-20284)

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 8.5 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

Updated Packages

• binutils-debugsource-2.30-108.el8.aarch64.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.30-108.el8.s390x.rpm
• binutils-2.30-108.el8.s390x.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.30-108.el8.i686.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.30-108.el8.x86_64.rpm
• binutils-2.30-108.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.30-108.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.30-108.el8.s390x.rpm
• binutils-2.30-108.el8.src.rpm
• binutils-debugsource-2.30-108.el8.i686.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.30-108.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.30-108.el8.i686.rpm
• binutils-devel-2.30-108.el8.aarch64.rpm
• binutils-2.30-108.el8.aarch64.rpm
• binutils-2.30-108.el8.x86_64.rpm
• binutils-debugsource-2.30-108.el8.s390x.rpm
• binutils-debugsource-2.30-108.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.30-108.el8.aarch64.rpm
• binutils-debuginfo-2.30-108.el8.x86_64.rpm
• binutils-debugsource-2.30-108.el8.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1913743
• This content is not included.BZ - 1924068
• This content is not included.BZ - 1930988
• This content is not included.BZ - 1935785
• This content is not included.BZ - 1937784
• This content is not included.BZ - 1946518
• This content is not included.BZ - 1946977
• This content is not included.BZ - 1947111
• This content is not included.BZ - 1950478
• This content is not included.BZ - 1969775

CVEs

• CVE-2020-35448
• CVE-2021-3487
• CVE-2021-20197
• CVE-2021-20284

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.