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Medium ALSA-2023:6236 1 CVE

Moderate: binutils security update

Published Nov 1, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 binutils 2.30-119.el8_8.2
AlmaLinux · 8 binutils-devel 2.30-119.el8_8.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4285
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2150768
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-6236.html