CVE-2022-44840

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

• CVE-2017-16831: Fix excessive memory allocation attempts and possible integer overflows when attempting to read a COFF binary with a corrupt symbol count
• CVE-2020-19726: Fix parsing a corrupt PE format file
• CVE-2021-45078: Fix out-of-bounds write in stab_xcoff_builtin_type
• CVE-2021-46174: Fix buffer overflow in read_section_stabs_debugging_info
• CVE-2022-44840: Fix possible heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c
• CVE-2022-45703: Combine sanity checks, calculate element counts, not word counts, fix typo
• CVE-2022-47695: Test symbol flags to exclude section and synthetic symbols before attempting to check flavour
• CVE-2022-47696: Fix uninitialised field the_bfd of asymbol
• CVE-2022-47673: Fix lack of bounds checking in vms-alpha.c

• CVE-2021-45078: Fix out-of-bounds write in stab_xcoff_builtin_type
• CVE-2021-46174: Fix buffer overflow in read_section_stabs_debugging_info
• CVE-2022-44840: Fix possible heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c
• CVE-2022-45703: Combine sanity checks, calculate element counts, not word counts, fix typo
• CVE-2022-47695: Test symbol flags to exclude section and synthetic symbols before attempting to check flavour
• CVE-2022-47696: Fix uninitialised field the_bfd of asymbol
• CVE-2022-47673: Fix lack of bounds checking in vms-alpha.c

• SECURITY UPDATE: heap-based buffer overflow in function bfd_getl32 in objdump
  • debian/patches/CVE-2021-46174.patch: Don't read past end of section when concatentating stab strings in read_section_stabs_debugging_info() in rddbg.c
  • CVE-2021-46174
• SECURITY UPDATE: heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf
  • debian/patches/CVE-2022-44840.patch: Scan the pool directly
  • CVE-2022-44840

• CVE-2022-44840: fix heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set in dwarf.c
• CVE-2023-25584: fix lack of bounds checking in vms-alpha.c parse_module
• CVE-2022-47673: fix OOB reads in parse_module
• CVE-2022-47696: fix uninitialised the_bfd field in mach-o.c synthetic symbols
• CVE-2022-45703: fix heap buffer overflow in display_gdb_index in dwarf.c

• CVE-2022-44840: fix pool section entries overflow for DWP version 1

• CVE-2021-45078: fix heap-based buffer overflow in stab_xcoff_builtin_type
• CVE-2021-46174: fix buffer overflow in read_section_stabs_debugging_info
• CVE-2022-44840: fix heap buffer overflow in find_section_in_set
• CVE-2022-45703: fix heap buffer overflow in display_gdb_index
• CVE-2022-47695: fix segmentation fault in compare_symbols
• CVE-2022-47696: fix DoS in bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab
• CVE-2022-47673: fix out-of-bounds reads in parse_module
• CVE-2025-11082: fix heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

These are all security issues fixed in the binutils-2.41-1.2 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 a memory leak existed in certain GNU binutils modules. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2020-19724, CVE-2020-21490)

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks in several functions, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-19726, CVE-2021-46174, CVE-2022-45703)

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly initializing heap memory when processing certain print instructions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2020-35342)

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly handling the logic behind certain memory management related operations, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-44840)

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly handling the logic behind certain memory management related operations, which could lead to an invalid memory access. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-47695)

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks in several functions, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-44840, CVE-2022-45703)

It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled memory management operations in several of its functions, which could lead to excessive memory consumption due to memory leaks. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-47007, CVE-2022-47008, CVE-2022-47010, CVE-2022-47011)