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Medium ALAS2-2021-1702 4 CVEs

Moderate: gcc10-binutils security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 8, 2021 · Updated Jan 19, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3487: There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption. CVE-2021-20294: A flaw was found in binutils' readelf program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a crafted file, could trigger a stack buffer overflow, out-of-bounds write of arbitrary data supplied by the attacker. The highest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE-2021-20284: A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. CVE-2020-35448: An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfd_getl_signed_32 in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 gcc10-binutils 0:2.35-21.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 gcc10-binutils-debuginfo 0:2.35-21.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 gcc10-binutils-devel 0:2.35-21.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 gcc10-binutils-gold 0:2.35-21.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-35448.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20284.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20294.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3487.html