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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2019-1010204) ELSA-2020-1797: binutils security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2019-1010204) ELSA-2020-1797: binutils security and bug fix update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/23/2019
Created
10/06/2022
Added
10/05/2022
Modified
10/05/2022

Description

GNU binutils gold gold v1.11-v1.16 (GNU binutils v2.21-v2.31.1) is affected by: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: gold/fileread.cc:497, elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h:644. The attack vector is: An ELF file with an invalid e_shoff header field must be opened.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-binutils
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

  • ELSA-2020-1797
  • CVE-2019-1010204
  • USN-5349-1

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