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Low ALSA-2024:9689 1 CVE

Low: binutils security update

Published Nov 14, 2024 · 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: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c (CVE-2018-12699)

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 2.30-125.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 binutils-devel 2.30-125.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12699
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1595427
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9689.html