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
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| 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
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Unscored —
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1…
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Unscored —
A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_…
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Unscored —CVE-2021-20294 Public exploit
A flaw was found in binutils readelf 2.35 program. An attacker who is able to convince a victim using readelf to read a…
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Unscored —CVE-2021-3487 Rejected
Non Security Issue. See the binutils security policy for more details, https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/tree/bi…