openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2020-1804)

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Description

This update for binutils fixes the following issues :

binutils was updated to version 2.35. (jsc#ECO-2373)

Update to binutils 2.35 :

- The assembler can now produce DWARF-5 format line number tables.

- Readelf now has a 'lint' mode to enable extra checks of the files it is processing.

- Readelf will now display '[...]' when it has to truncate a symbol name. The old behaviour - of displaying as many characters as possible, up to the 80 column limit - can be restored by the use of the --silent-truncation option.

- The linker can now produce a dependency file listing the inputs that it has processed, much like the -M -MP option supported by the compiler.

- fix DT_NEEDED order with -flto [bsc#1163744]

Update to binutils 2.34 :

- The disassembler (objdump --disassemble) now has an option to generate ascii art thats show the arcs between that start and end points of control flow instructions.

- The binutils tools now have support for debuginfod.
Debuginfod is a HTTP service for distributing ELF/DWARF debugging information as well as source code. The tools can now connect to debuginfod servers in order to download debug information about the files that they are processing.

- The assembler and linker now support the generation of ELF format files for the Z80 architecture.

- Add new subpackages for libctf and libctf-nobfd.

- Disable LTO due to bsc#1163333.

- Includes fixes for these CVEs: bsc#1153768 aka CVE-2019-17451 aka PR25070 bsc#1153770 aka CVE-2019-17450 aka PR25078

- fix various build fails on aarch64 (PR25210, bsc#1157755).

Update to binutils 2.33.1 :

- Adds support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension version 2 (SVE2) instructions, the Arm Transactional Memory Extension (TME) instructions and the Armv8.1-M Mainline and M-profile Vector Extension (MVE) instructions.

- Adds support for the Arm Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A77 and Cortex-M35P processors and the AArch64 Cortex-A34, Cortex-A65, Cortex-A65AE, Cortex-A76AE, and Cortex-A77 processors.

- Adds a .float16 directive for both Arm and AArch64 to allow encoding of 16-bit floating point literals.

- For MIPS, Add -m[no-]fix-loongson3-llsc option to fix (or not) Loongson3 LLSC Errata. Add a
--enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=[yes|no] configure time option to set the default behavior. Set the default if the configure option is not used to 'no'.

- The Cortex-A53 Erratum 843419 workaround now supports a choice of which workaround to use. The option
--fix-cortex-a53-843419 now takes an optional argument
--fix-cortex-a53-843419[=full|adr|adrp] which can be used to force a particular workaround to be used. See
--help for AArch64 for more details.

- Add support for GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI and GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC in ELF GNU program properties in the AArch64 ELF linker.

- Add -z force-bti for AArch64 to enable GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI on output while warning about missing GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI on inputs and use PLTs protected with BTI.

- Add -z pac-plt for AArch64 to pick PAC enabled PLTs.

- Add --source-comment[=<txt>] option to objdump which if present, provides a prefix to source code lines displayed in a disassembly.

- Add --set-section-alignment <section-name>=<power-of-2-align> option to objcopy to allow the changing of section alignments.

- Add --verilog-data-width option to objcopy for verilog targets to control width of data elements in verilog hex format.

- The separate debug info file options of readelf (--debug-dump=links and --debug-dump=follow) and objdump (--dwarf=links and

--dwarf=follow-links) will now display and/or follow multiple links if more than one are present in a file.
(This usually happens when gcc's -gsplit-dwarf option is used). In addition objdump's --dwarf=follow-links now also affects its other display options, so that for example, when combined with

--syms it will cause the symbol tables in any linked debug info files to also be displayed. In addition when combined with

--disassemble the --dwarf= follow-links option will ensure that any symbol tables in the linked files are read and used when disassembling code in the main file.

- Add support for dumping types encoded in the Compact Type Format to objdump and readelf.

- Includes fixes for these CVEs: bsc#1126826 aka CVE-2019-9077 aka PR1126826 bsc#1126829 aka CVE-2019-9075 aka PR1126829 bsc#1126831 aka CVE-2019-9074 aka PR24235 bsc#1140126 aka CVE-2019-12972 aka PR23405 bsc#1143609 aka CVE-2019-14444 aka PR24829 bsc#1142649 aka CVE-2019-14250 aka PR90924

- Add xBPF target

- Fix various problems with DWARF 5 support in gas

- fix nm -B for objects compiled with -flto and -fcommon.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected binutils packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142149

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1804.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/2/2020

Updated: 2/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9077

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-xtensa-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-xtensa-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-epiphany-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-aarch64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ia64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-avr-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-avr-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-riscv64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-rx-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-i386-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libctf0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-mips-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-rx-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64le-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-rx-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils-gold-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-arm-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-hppa-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-i386-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ia64-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390x-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libctf-nobfd0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-hppa-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-aarch64-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-arm-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-sparc64-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libctf0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libctf-nobfd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-spu-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-spu-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-hppa64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-i386-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390x-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-mips-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-sparc-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64le-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-hppa64-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils-gold, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-sparc-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-m68k-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-m68k-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ia64-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-spu-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-xtensa-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-sparc64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-sparc-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-riscv64-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-riscv64-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-avr-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64le-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-epiphany-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-m68k-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-sparc64-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-hppa-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-hppa64-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-mips-binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-aarch64-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-arm-binutils-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-s390x-binutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-ppc64-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cross-epiphany-binutils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:binutils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12972, CVE-2019-14250, CVE-2019-14444, CVE-2019-17450, CVE-2019-17451, CVE-2019-9074, CVE-2019-9075, CVE-2019-9077

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