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<glsa id="202007-39">
  <title>Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Binutils, the worst of
    which could result in a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">binutils</product>
  <announced>2020-07-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-07-27</revised>
  <bug>688836</bug>
  <bug>690590</bug>
  <bug>711324</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-devel/binutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.33.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.33.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse
      binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor
      library, to do low-level manipulation.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binutils. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Binutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-devel/binutils-2.33.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12972">CVE-2019-12972</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14250">CVE-2019-14250</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14444">CVE-2019-14444</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450">CVE-2019-17450</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17451">CVE-2019-17451</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12972">CVE-2019-12972</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14250">CVE-2019-14250</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14444">CVE-2019-14444</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17450">CVE-2019-17450</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17451">CVE-2019-17451</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-06-20T01:35:54Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-07-27T00:47:26Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>
