Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6593-01 - An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include a null pointer vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: binutils security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:6593-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6593
Issue date: 2023-11-07
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2022-4285
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Summary:
An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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.
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 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2022-4285
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/index