binutils security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:2075

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: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in objdump (CVE-2018-1000876)

• binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the demangling functions provided by libiberty (CVE-2018-12641)

• binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c. (CVE-2018-12697)

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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/032088.html

Affected packages:
binutils
binutils-devel

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2075