A binutils security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

ELSA-2023-6236 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 binutils security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-6236

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-6236.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
binutils-2.30-119.0.2.el8_8.2.x86_64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-119.0.2.el8_8.2.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-119.0.2.el8_8.2.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
binutils-2.30-119.0.2.el8_8.2.aarch64.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-119.0.2.el8_8.2.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates//binutils-2.30-119.0.2.el8_8.2.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-4285

Description of changes:

[2.30-119.0.2.2]
- Fix for CVE-2022-4285.
- Fix illegal memory address when parsing an ELF file contaiing corrupt
symbol version information.
Upstream commit 5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70.
- Partial backport of _bfd_mul_overflow support from upstream commit
1f4361a77b18c5ab32baf2f30fefe5e301e017be
- Reviewed-by: David Faust [david.faust@oracle.com]