Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-9689-03 - An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: binutils security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:9689-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9689
Issue date: 2024-11-21
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2018-12699
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Summary:
An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2018-12699
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595427