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Medium ALAS2023-2023-334 7 CVEs

Moderate: binutils security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Sep 7, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-48065: GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. CVE-2022-48064: GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack. CVE-2022-48063: GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack. CVE-2022-47696: An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols. CVE-2022-47695: An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c. CVE-2022-47673: An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. CVE-2022-45703: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in file readelf.c.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils 0:2.39-6.amzn2023.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-debuginfo 0:2.39-6.amzn2023.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-debugsource 0:2.39-6.amzn2023.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-devel 0:2.39-6.amzn2023.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-gprofng 0:2.39-6.amzn2023.0.9
Amazon Linux · 2023 binutils-gprofng-debuginfo 0:2.39-6.amzn2023.0.9

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-45703.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-47673.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-47695.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-47696.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48063.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48064.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-48065.html