Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binutils, the worst of which could result in denial of service.

Announced

2022-08-14

Revised

2022-08-14

Access

remote

Bugs

#778545 #792342 #829304

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
sys-devel/binutils	*	< 2.38	>= 2.38
sys-libs/binutils-libs	*	< 2.38	>= 2.38

Background

The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Binutils. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Binutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-devel/binutils-2.38"

All Binutils library users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.38"

References

• CVE-2021-3487
• CVE-2021-3530
• CVE-2021-3549
• CVE-2021-20197
• CVE-2021-20284
• CVE-2021-20294
• CVE-2021-45078