RLSA-2021:4364

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: Excessive debug section size can cause excessive memory consumption in bfd's dwarf2.c read_section() (CVE-2021-3487)

• binutils: Race window allows users to own arbitrary files (CVE-2021-20197)

• binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfdgetlsigned32() in libbfd.c because shentsize is not validated in bfdelfslurpsecondaryrelocsection() in elf.c (CVE-2020-35448)

• binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfdelfslurpsecondaryrelocsection in elf.c (CVE-2021-20284)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.