USN-4336-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in GNU. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
{
"binaries": [
{
"binary_version": "2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2",
"binary_name": "binutils"
},
{
"binary_version": "2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2",
"binary_name": "binutils-dev"
},
{
"binary_version": "2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2",
"binary_name": "binutils-multiarch"
},
{
"binary_version": "2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2",
"binary_name": "binutils-multiarch-dev"
},
{
"binary_version": "2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2",
"binary_name": "binutils-source"
},
{
"binary_version": "2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm2",
"binary_name": "binutils-static"
}
],
"availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}
{
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
"cves": [
{
"id": "CVE-2017-9742",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "low"
}
]
},
{
"id": "CVE-2017-9747",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "low"
}
]
},
{
"id": "CVE-2017-9748",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "low"
}
]
},
{
"id": "CVE-2017-9750",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "low"
}
]
},
{
"id": "CVE-2017-9756",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "low"
}
]
},
{
"id": "CVE-2018-6323",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "low"
}
]
}
]
}