Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:9689-01 (binutils)

An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

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: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c
(CVE-2018-12699)

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.

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