CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-35448: Moderate: binutils security update (CESA-2021:4364)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
12/27/2020
11/11/2021
11/10/2021
05/25/2023
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-binutils
- centos-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
- centos-upgrade-binutils-debugsource
- centos-upgrade-binutils-devel
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