A gcc-toolset-12-binutils security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHSA-2023:2873-01: Moderate: gcc-toolset-12-binutils security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: gcc-toolset-12-binutils security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2873-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2873
Issue date: 2023-05-16
CVE Names: CVE-2022-4285
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1. Summary:

An update for gcc-toolset-12-binutils is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. 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: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string
leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

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 Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

  https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2142816 - addr2line from gcc-toolset-11-binutils having errors while compiling code using LTO and Dwarf5
2150768 - CVE-2022-4285 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.src.rpm

aarch64:
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.i686.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.i686.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-devel-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.i686.rpm
gcc-toolset-12-binutils-gold-debuginfo-2.38-17.el8.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4285
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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