The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

An update of the crash package has been released.

An update of the binutils package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function (CVE-2017-7614)

  - The srec_scan function in bfd/srec.c in libdbfd in GNU binutils before 2.25 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a small S-record. (CVE-2014-8484)

  - The setup_group function in bfd/elf.c in libbfd in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted section group headers     in an ELF file. (CVE-2014-8485)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function (CVE-2017-7614)

  - The srec_scan function in bfd/srec.c in libdbfd in GNU binutils before 2.25 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a small S-record. (CVE-2014-8484)

  - The setup_group function in bfd/elf.c in libbfd in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted section group headers     in an ELF file. (CVE-2014-8485)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function (CVE-2017-7614)

  - The _bfd_vms_save_sized_string function in vms-misc.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka     libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of     bounds heap read via a crafted vms file. (CVE-2017-12449)

  - The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000.c and bfd/coff64-rs6000.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote     attackers to cause an out of bounds stack read via a crafted COFF image file. (CVE-2017-12451)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0899-1 advisory.

  - The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file. (CVE-2017-16829)

  - In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd),     as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as     demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object. (CVE-2018-7208)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0898-1 advisory.

  - The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file. (CVE-2017-16829)

  - In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd),     as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as     demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object. (CVE-2018-7208)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0319-1 advisory.

  - The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file. (CVE-2017-16829)

  - In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd),     as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as     demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object. (CVE-2018-7208)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2485-1 advisory.

  - The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file. (CVE-2017-16829)

  - In the coff_pointerize_aux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd),     as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as     demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object. (CVE-2018-7208)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for binutils to version 2.31 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-15996: readelf allowed remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation)     or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted     ELF file that triggered a buffer overflow on fuzzed     archive header (bsc#1065643)

  - CVE-2017-15939: Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd) mishandled NULL files in a .debug_line file     table, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to     concat_filename (bsc#1065689)

  - CVE-2017-15938: the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd) miscalculated DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in     the case of a relocatable object file, which allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read,     segmentation fault, and application crash) (bsc#1065693)

  - CVE-2017-16826: The coff_slurp_line_table function the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (invalid memory access and application crash) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE     file (bsc#1068640)

  - CVE-2017-16832: The pe_bfd_read_buildid function in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did     not validate size and offset values in the data     dictionary, which allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation violation and     application crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068643)

  - CVE-2017-16831: Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd) did not validate the symbol count, which     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive     memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068887)

  - CVE-2017-16830: The print_gnu_property_note function did     not have integer-overflow protection on 32-bit     platforms, which allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (segmentation violation and     application crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1068888)

  - CVE-2017-16829: The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties     function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd) did not prevent negative pointers, which     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file     (bsc#1068950)

  - CVE-2017-16828: The display_debug_frames function     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (integer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read, and     application crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1069176)

  - CVE-2017-16827: The aout_get_external_symbols function     in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (slurp_symtab invalid free and application crash) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file (bsc#1069202)

  - CVE-2018-6323: The elf_object_p function in the Binary     File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) had an     unsigned integer overflow because bfd_size_type     multiplication is not used. A crafted ELF file allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact (bsc#1077745)

  - CVE-2018-6543: Prevent integer overflow in the function     load_specific_debug_section() which resulted in     `malloc()` with 0 size. A crafted ELF file allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact (bsc#1079103)

  - CVE-2018-6759: The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in     the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     had an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers     could have leveraged this vulnerability to cause a     denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted ELF     file (bsc#1079741)

  - CVE-2018-6872: The elf_parse_notes function in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a     note with a large alignment (bsc#1080556)

  - CVE-2018-7208: In the coff_pointerize_aux function in     the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) an     index was not validated, which allowed remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted     file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object     (bsc#1081527)

  - CVE-2018-7570: The     assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections function in     the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an     ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD     segment, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1083528)

  - CVE-2018-7569: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library     (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (integer underflow or overflow, and     application crash) via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF     FORM block, as demonstrated by nm (bsc#1083532)

  - CVE-2018-8945: The bfd_section_from_shdr function in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section     (bsc#1086608)

  - CVE-2018-7643: The display_debug_ranges function allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer     overflow and application crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as     demonstrated by objdump (bsc#1086784)

  - CVE-2018-7642: The swap_std_reloc_in function in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and     application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as     demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1086786)

  - CVE-2018-7568: The parse_die function in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow     and application crash) via an ELF file with corrupt     dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm     (bsc#1086788)

  - CVE-2018-10373: concat_filename in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and application crash) via a crafted binary     file, as demonstrated by nm-new (bsc#1090997)

  - CVE-2018-10372: process_cu_tu_index allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based     buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted     binary file, as demonstrated by readelf (bsc#1091015)

  - CVE-2018-10535: The ignore_section_sym function in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did     not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a     symtab entry with a 'SECTION' type that has a '0' value,     which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash)     via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy     (bsc#1091365)

  - CVE-2018-10534: The
    _bfd_XX_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data_common function in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd)     processesed a negative Data Directory size with an     unbounded loop that increased the value of     (external_IMAGE_DEBUG_DIRECTORY) *edd so that the     address exceeded its own memory region, resulting in an     out-of-bounds memory write, as demonstrated by objcopy     copying private info with
    _bfd_pex64_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data_common in     pex64igen.c (bsc#1091368)

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - The AArch64 port now supports showing disassembly notes     which are emitted when inconsistencies are found with     the instruction that may result in the instruction being     invalid. These can be turned on with the option -M notes     to objdump.

  - The AArch64 port now emits warnings when a combination     of an instruction and a named register could be invalid.

  - Added O modifier to ar to display member offsets inside     an archive

  - The ADR and ADRL pseudo-instructions supported by the     ARM assembler now only set the bottom bit of the address     of thumb function symbols if the -mthumb-interwork     command line option is active.

  - Add --generate-missing-build-notes=[yes|no] option to     create (or not) GNU Build Attribute notes if none are     present in the input sources. Add a

    --enable-generate-build-notes=[yes|no] configure time     option to set the default behaviour. Set the default if     the configure option is not used to 'no'.

  - Remove -mold-gcc command-line option for x86 targets.

  - Add -O[2|s] command-line options to x86 assembler to     enable alternate shorter instruction encoding.

  - Add support for .nops directive. It is currently     supported only for x86 targets.

  - Speed up direct linking with DLLs for Cygwin and Mingw     targets.

  - Add a configure option --enable-separate-code to decide     whether

    -z separate-code should be enabled in ELF linker by     default. Default to yes for Linux/x86 targets. Note that
    -z separate-code can increase disk and memory size.

  - RISC-V: Fix symbol address problem with versioned     symbols 

  - Restore riscv64-elf cross prefix via symlinks

  - Fix pacemaker libqb problem with section start/stop     symbols

  - RISC-V: Don't enable relaxation in relocatable link

  - Prevent linking faiures on i386 with assertion     (bsc#1085784)

  - Fix symbol size bug when relaxation deletes bytes

  - Add --debug-dump=links option to readelf and
    --dwarf=links option to objdump which displays the     contents of any .gnu_debuglink or .gnu_debugaltlink     sections. Add a --debug-dump=follow-links option to     readelf and a --dwarf=follow-links option to objdump     which causes indirect links into separate debug info     files to be followed when dumping other DWARF sections.

  - Add support for loaction views in DWARF debug line     information.

  - Add -z separate-code to generate separate code PT_LOAD     segment.

  - Add '-z undefs' command line option as the inverse of     the '-z defs' option.

  - Add -z globalaudit command line option to force audit     libraries to be run for every dynamic object loaded by     an executable - provided that the loader supports this     functionality.

  - Tighten linker script grammar around file name     specifiers to prevent the use of SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT and     SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY on filenames. These would     previously be accepted but had no effect.

  - The EXCLUDE_FILE directive can now be placed within any     SORT_* directive within input section lists.

  - Fix linker relaxation with --wrap

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for binutils to version 2.31 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

CVE-2017-15996: readelf allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggered a buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header (bsc#1065643)

CVE-2017-15939: Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) mishandled NULL files in a .debug_line file table, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename (bsc#1065689)

CVE-2017-15938: the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) miscalculated DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash) (bsc#1065693)

CVE-2017-16826: The coff_slurp_line_table function the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068640)

CVE-2017-16832: The pe_bfd_read_buildid function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not validate size and offset values in the data dictionary, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068643)

CVE-2017-16831: Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not validate the symbol count, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068887)

CVE-2017-16830: The print_gnu_property_note function did not have integer-overflow protection on 32-bit platforms, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1068888)

CVE-2017-16829: The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not prevent negative pointers, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1068950)

CVE-2017-16828: The display_debug_frames function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1069176)

CVE-2017-16827: The aout_get_external_symbols function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slurp_symtab invalid free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1069202)

CVE-2018-6323: The elf_object_p function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) had an unsigned integer overflow because bfd_size_type multiplication is not used. A crafted ELF file allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bsc#1077745)

CVE-2018-6543: Prevent integer overflow in the function load_specific_debug_section() which resulted in `malloc()` with 0 size. A crafted ELF file allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bsc#1079103)

CVE-2018-6759: The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) had an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could have leveraged this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1079741)

CVE-2018-6872: The elf_parse_notes function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment (bsc#1080556)

CVE-2018-7208: In the coff_pointerize_aux function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) an index was not validated, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object (bsc#1081527)

CVE-2018-7570: The assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD segment, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1083528)

CVE-2018-7569: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow or overflow, and application crash) via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF FORM block, as demonstrated by nm (bsc#1083532)

CVE-2018-8945: The bfd_section_from_shdr function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section (bsc#1086608)

CVE-2018-7643: The display_debug_ranges function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objdump (bsc#1086784)

CVE-2018-7642: The swap_std_reloc_in function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1086786)

CVE-2018-7568: The parse_die function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm (bsc#1086788)

CVE-2018-10373: concat_filename in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by nm-new (bsc#1090997)

CVE-2018-10372: process_cu_tu_index allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by readelf (bsc#1091015)

CVE-2018-10535: The ignore_section_sym function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a 'SECTION' type that has a '0' value, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1091365)

CVE-2018-10534: The _bfd_XX_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data_common function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) processesed a negative Data Directory size with an unbounded loop that increased the value of (external_IMAGE_DEBUG_DIRECTORY) *edd so that the address exceeded its own memory region, resulting in an out-of-bounds memory write, as demonstrated by objcopy copying private info with
_bfd_pex64_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data_common in pex64igen.c (bsc#1091368)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201811-17 (Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities)

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

    A remote attacker, by enticing a user to compile/execute a specially       crafted ELF, object, PE, or binary file, could possibly cause a Denial of       Service condition or have other unspecified impacts.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for binutils to 2.31 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

CVE-2017-15996: readelf allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggered a buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header (bsc#1065643).

CVE-2017-15939: Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) mishandled NULL files in a .debug_line file table, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename (bsc#1065689).

CVE-2017-15938: the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) miscalculated DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash) (bsc#1065693).

CVE-2017-16826: The coff_slurp_line_table function the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068640).

CVE-2017-16832: The pe_bfd_read_buildid function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not validate size and offset values in the data dictionary, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068643).

CVE-2017-16831: Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not validate the symbol count, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file (bsc#1068887).

CVE-2017-16830: The print_gnu_property_note function did not have integer-overflow protection on 32-bit platforms, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1068888).

CVE-2017-16829: The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not prevent negative pointers, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1068950).

CVE-2017-16828: The display_debug_frames function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1069176).

CVE-2017-16827: The aout_get_external_symbols function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slurp_symtab invalid free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1069202).

CVE-2018-6323: The elf_object_p function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) had an unsigned integer overflow because bfd_size_type multiplication is not used. A crafted ELF file allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bsc#1077745).

CVE-2018-6543: Prevent integer overflow in the function load_specific_debug_section() which resulted in `malloc()` with 0 size. A crafted ELF file allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bsc#1079103).

CVE-2018-6759: The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) had an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could have leveraged this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted ELF file (bsc#1079741).

CVE-2018-6872: The elf_parse_notes function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation) via a note with a large alignment (bsc#1080556).

CVE-2018-7208: In the coff_pointerize_aux function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) an index was not validated, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy of a COFF object (bsc#1081527).

CVE-2018-7570: The assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an ELF file with a RELRO segment that lacks a matching LOAD segment, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1083528).

CVE-2018-7569: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow or overflow, and application crash) via an ELF file with a corrupt DWARF FORM block, as demonstrated by nm (bsc#1083532).

CVE-2018-8945: The bfd_section_from_shdr function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large attribute section (bsc#1086608).

CVE-2018-7643: The display_debug_ranges function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objdump (bsc#1086784).

CVE-2018-7642: The swap_std_reloc_in function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (aout_32_swap_std_reloc_out NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1086786).

CVE-2018-7568: The parse_die function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm (bsc#1086788).

CVE-2018-10373: concat_filename in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by nm-new (bsc#1090997).

CVE-2018-10372: process_cu_tu_index allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by readelf (bsc#1091015).

CVE-2018-10535: The ignore_section_sym function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) did not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a 'SECTION' type that has a '0' value, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy (bsc#1091365).

CVE-2018-10534: The _bfd_XX_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data_common function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) processesed a negative Data Directory size with an unbounded loop that increased the value of (external_IMAGE_DEBUG_DIRECTORY) *edd so that the address exceeded its own memory region, resulting in an out-of-bounds memory write, as demonstrated by objcopy copying private info with
_bfd_pex64_bfd_copy_private_bfd_data_common in pex64igen.c (bsc#1091368).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
203822	Photon OS 3.0: Crash PHSA-2023-3.0-0601	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
203529	Photon OS 4.0: Crash PHSA-2023-4.0-0414	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
202807	Photon OS 1.0: Binutils PHSA-2017-0052	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
200048	RHEL 6 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199993	RHEL 5 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199956	RHEL 7 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195456	RHEL 6 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195414	RHEL 5 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195378	RHEL 7 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
192143	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gdb (SUSE-SU-2024:0899-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192139	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : gdb (SUSE-SU-2024:0898-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
189957	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : gdb (SUSE-SU-2024:0319-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
177191	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : gdb (SUSE-SU-2023:2485-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
123342	openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2019-808)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
121791	Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2017-2.0-0008	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
120133	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2018:3170-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120132	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2018:3170-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119162	GLSA-201811-17 : Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
118337	openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2018-1222)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
118303	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
118220	openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2018-1198)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
118199	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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