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Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-35448: binutils (RLSA-2021-4364)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-35448: binutils (RLSA-2021-4364)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/27/2020
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
11/15/2024

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)

  • rocky-upgrade-binutils
  • rocky-upgrade-binutils-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-binutils-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-binutils-devel

References

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