Issued at: 2024-11-19
Updated at: 2024-11-19
Synopsis
Low: binutils security update
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: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c (CVE-2018-12699)
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.