RHSA-2019:2075: Moderate: binutils security and bug fix update

First published: Tue Aug 06 2019(Updated: )

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.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> binutils: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in objdump (CVE-2018-1000876)</li> <li> binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the demangling functions provided by libiberty (CVE-2018-12641)</li> <li> binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c. (CVE-2018-12697)</li> 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.<br>Additional Changes:<br>For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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