Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-13710: Security patch for binutils (ALAS-2019-1185)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/27/2017
05/08/2020
04/27/2020
05/01/2020
Description
The setup_group function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a group section that is too small.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils-devel
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