CVE-2023-25588

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field the_bfd of asymbolstruct is uninitialized in the bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field the_bfd of asymbolstruct is uninitialized in the bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

• SECURITY UPDATE: fixing the existing CVE-2017-12450 patches that were incorrectly ported from upstream
  • debian/patches/CVE-2017-12450-1.patch: fix address violation errors
  • debian/patches/CVE-2017-12450-2.patch: import patches from mainline to fix minor binutils bugs
  • CVE-2017-12450
• SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based buffer overflow
  • debian/patches/CVE-2023-25584.patch: lack of bounds checking in vms-alpha.c
  • CVE-2023-25584
• SECURITY UPDATE: segmentation fault due to uninitialized
  • debian/patches/CVE-2023-25585.patch: field file_table of struct module is uninitialized
  • CVE-2023-25585
• SECURITY UPDATE: segmentation fault due to uninitialized
  • debian/patches/CVE-2023-25588.patch: field the_bfd of asymbol is uninitialised
  • CVE-2023-25588
• Fix memory leaks and buffer overflow in vms-alpha.c
  • debian/patches/vms-alpha-buffer-overflow-fix.patch: fix heap-based buffer overflow in build_module_list in vms-alpha.c
  • debian/patches/vms-alpha-memory-leaks-fix.patch: fix memory leaks and buffer overflow in vms-alpha.c

These are all security issues fixed in the binutils-2.40-3.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update for binutils fixes the following issues:

Update to version 2.41 [jsc#PED-5778]:

• The MIPS port now supports the Sony Interactive Entertainment Allegrex processor, used with the PlayStation Portable, which implements the MIPS II ISA along with a single-precision FPU and a few implementation-specific integer instructions.

• Objdump's --private option can now be used on PE format files to display the fields in the file header and section headers.

• New versioned release of libsframe: libsframe.so.1. This release introduces versioned symbols with version node name LIBSFRAME_1.0. This release also updates the ABI in an incompatible way: this includes removal of sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr API, change in the behavior of sframe_fre_get_ra_offset and sframe_fre_get_fp_offset APIs.

• SFrame Version 2 is now the default (and only) format version supported by gas, ld, readelf and objdump.

• Add command-line option, --strip-section-headers, to objcopy and strip to remove ELF section header from ELF file.

• The RISC-V port now supports the following new standard extensions:

  • Zicond (conditional zero instructions)
  • Zfa (additional floating-point instructions)
  • Zvbb, Zvbc, Zvkg, Zvkned, Zvknh[ab], Zvksed, Zvksh, Zvkn, Zvknc, Zvkng, Zvks, Zvksc, Zvkg, Zvkt (vector crypto instructions)

• The RISC-V port now supports the following vendor-defined extensions:

  • XVentanaCondOps

• Add support for Intel FRED, LKGS and AMX-COMPLEX instructions.

• A new .insn directive is recognized by x86 gas.

• Add SME2 support to the AArch64 port.

• The linker now accepts a command line option of --remap-inputs <PATTERN>=<FILE> to relace any input file that matches <PATTERN> with <FILE>. In addition the option --remap-inputs-file=<FILE> can be used to specify a file containing any number of these remapping directives.

• The linker command line option --print-map-locals can be used to include local symbols in a linker map. (ELF targets only).

• For most ELF based targets, if the --enable-linker-version option is used then the version of the linker will be inserted as a string into the .comment section.

• The linker script syntax has a new command for output sections: ASCIZ 'string' This will insert a zero-terminated string at the current location.

• Add command-line option, -z nosectionheader, to omit ELF section header.

• Contains fixes for these non-CVEs (not security bugs per upstreams SECURITY.md):

  • bsc#1209642 aka CVE-2023-1579 aka PR29988
  • bsc#1210297 aka CVE-2023-1972 aka PR30285
  • bsc#1210733 aka CVE-2023-2222 aka PR29936
  • bsc#1213458 aka CVE-2021-32256 aka PR105039 (gcc)
  • bsc#1214565 aka CVE-2020-19726 aka PR26240
  • bsc#1214567 aka CVE-2022-35206 aka PR29290
  • bsc#1214579 aka CVE-2022-35205 aka PR29289
  • bsc#1214580 aka CVE-2022-44840 aka PR29732
  • bsc#1214604 aka CVE-2022-45703 aka PR29799
  • bsc#1214611 aka CVE-2022-48065 aka PR29925
  • bsc#1214619 aka CVE-2022-48064 aka PR29922
  • bsc#1214620 aka CVE-2022-48063 aka PR29924
  • bsc#1214623 aka CVE-2022-47696 aka PR29677
  • bsc#1214624 aka CVE-2022-47695 aka PR29846
  • bsc#1214625 aka CVE-2022-47673 aka PR29876

• Fixed a compatibility problem caused by binutils-revert-rela.diff in SLE codestreams. Needed for update of glibc as that would otherwise pick up the broken relative relocs support. [bsc#1213282, jsc#PED-1435]

• Document fixed CVEs:

  • bsc#1208037 aka CVE-2023-25588 aka PR29677
  • bsc#1208038 aka CVE-2023-25587 aka PR29846
  • bsc#1208040 aka CVE-2023-25585 aka PR29892
  • bsc#1208409 aka CVE-2023-0687 aka PR29444

• Enable bpf-none cross target and add bpf-none to the multitarget set of supported targets.

• Disable packed-relative-relocs for old codestreams. They generate buggy relocations when binutils-revert-rela.diff is active. [bsc#1206556]

• Disable ZSTD debug section compress by default.

• Enable zstd compression algorithm (instead of zlib) for debug info sections by…

This update for binutils fixes the following issues:

Update to version 2.41 [jsc#PED-5778]:

• The MIPS port now supports the Sony Interactive Entertainment Allegrex processor, used with the PlayStation Portable, which implements the MIPS II ISA along with a single-precision FPU and a few implementation-specific integer instructions.

• Objdump's --private option can now be used on PE format files to display the fields in the file header and section headers.

• New versioned release of libsframe: libsframe.so.1. This release introduces versioned symbols with version node name LIBSFRAME_1.0. This release also updates the ABI in an incompatible way: this includes removal of sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr API, change in the behavior of sframe_fre_get_ra_offset and sframe_fre_get_fp_offset APIs.

• SFrame Version 2 is now the default (and only) format version supported by gas, ld, readelf and objdump.

• Add command-line option, --strip-section-headers, to objcopy and strip to remove ELF section header from ELF file.

• The RISC-V port now supports the following new standard extensions:

  • Zicond (conditional zero instructions)
  • Zfa (additional floating-point instructions)
  • Zvbb, Zvbc, Zvkg, Zvkned, Zvknh[ab], Zvksed, Zvksh, Zvkn, Zvknc, Zvkng, Zvks, Zvksc, Zvkg, Zvkt (vector crypto instructions)

• The RISC-V port now supports the following vendor-defined extensions:

  • XVentanaCondOps

• Add support for Intel FRED, LKGS and AMX-COMPLEX instructions.

• A new .insn directive is recognized by x86 gas.

• Add SME2 support to the AArch64 port.

• The linker now accepts a command line option of --remap-inputs <PATTERN>=<FILE> to relace any input file that matches <PATTERN> with <FILE>. In addition the option --remap-inputs-file=<FILE> can be used to specify a file containing any number of these remapping directives.

• The linker command line option --print-map-locals can be used to include local symbols in a linker map. (ELF targets only).

• For most ELF based targets, if the --enable-linker-version option is used then the version of the linker will be inserted as a string into the .comment section.

• The linker script syntax has a new command for output sections: ASCIZ 'string' This will insert a zero-terminated string at the current location.

• Add command-line option, -z nosectionheader, to omit ELF section header.

• Contains fixes for these non-CVEs (not security bugs per upstreams SECURITY.md):

  • bsc#1209642 aka CVE-2023-1579 aka PR29988
  • bsc#1210297 aka CVE-2023-1972 aka PR30285
  • bsc#1210733 aka CVE-2023-2222 aka PR29936
  • bsc#1213458 aka CVE-2021-32256 aka PR105039 (gcc)
  • bsc#1214565 aka CVE-2020-19726 aka PR26240
  • bsc#1214567 aka CVE-2022-35206 aka PR29290
  • bsc#1214579 aka CVE-2022-35205 aka PR29289
  • bsc#1214580 aka CVE-2022-44840 aka PR29732
  • bsc#1214604 aka CVE-2022-45703 aka PR29799
  • bsc#1214611 aka CVE-2022-48065 aka PR29925
  • bsc#1214619 aka CVE-2022-48064 aka PR29922
  • bsc#1214620 aka CVE-2022-48063 aka PR29924
  • bsc#1214623 aka CVE-2022-47696 aka PR29677
  • bsc#1214624 aka CVE-2022-47695 aka PR29846
  • bsc#1214625 aka CVE-2022-47673 aka PR29876

• This only existed only for a very short while in SLE-15, as the main variant in devel:gcc subsumed this in binutils-revert-rela.diff. Hence:

• Document fixed CVEs:

  • bsc#1208037 aka CVE-2023-25588 aka PR29677
  • bsc#1208038 aka CVE-2023-25587 aka PR29846
  • bsc#1208040 aka CVE-2023-25585 aka PR29892
  • bsc#1208409 aka CVE-2023-0687 aka PR29444

• Enable bpf-none cross target and add bpf-none to the multitarget set of supported targets.

• Disable packed-relative-relocs for old codestreams. They generate buggy relocations when binutils-revert-rela.diff is active. [bsc#1206556]

• Disable ZSTD debug section compress by default.

• Enable zstd compression algorithm (instead of zlib) for debug info sections by default.

• Pack libgprofng only for supported platforms.

• Move…

It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain DWARF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-1579)

It was discovered that GNU binutils did not properly verify the version definitions in zer0-lengthverdef table. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10 and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-1972)

It was discovered that GNU binutils did not properly validate the size of length parameter in vms-alpha. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or access sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-25584)

It was discovered that GNU binutils did not properly initialized the file_table field of struct module and the_bfd field of asymbol. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-25585, CVE-2023-25588)