ALAS2023-2023-229


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-229
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-21 19:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-27 20:58 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Potential heap based buffer overflow found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. (CVE-2023-1972)


Affected Packages:

binutils


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update binutils --releasever 2023.1.20230628 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    binutils-devel-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.aarch64
    binutils-gprofng-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.aarch64
    binutils-gprofng-debuginfo-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.aarch64
    binutils-debuginfo-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.aarch64
    binutils-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.aarch64
    binutils-debugsource-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.aarch64

src:
    binutils-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.src

x86_64:
    binutils-devel-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.x86_64
    binutils-gprofng-debuginfo-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.x86_64
    binutils-debuginfo-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.x86_64
    binutils-gprofng-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.x86_64
    binutils-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.x86_64
    binutils-debugsource-2.39-6.amzn2023.0.6.x86_64