DEBIAN-CVE-2021-42373

A NULL pointer dereference in Busybox's man applet leads to denial of service when a section name is supplied but no page argument is given...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42373

A NULL pointer dereference in Busybox's man applet leads to denial of service when a section name is supplied but no page argument is given...

Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201

The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...

PT-2021-30968

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=40908 Crash type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash state: bfd getl32 bfd mips elf section from shdr bfd section from shdr...

binutils:fuzz_bfd: Heap-buffer-overflow in bfd_getl32

Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4871486322638848 Project: binutils Fuzzing Engine: afl Fuzz Target: fuzzbfd Job Type: aflasanbinutils Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address: 0x608000000074 Crash State: bfdgetl32 bfdmipselfsectionfromshdr...

CentOS 8 : binutils (CESA-2021:4364)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:4364 advisory. - binutils: Race window allows users to own arbitrary files CVE-2021-20197 - binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfdgetlsigned32 in libbfd.c becaus...

gcc-toolset-10-annobin security update

An update is available for gcc-toolset-10-annobin. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Annobin provides a compiler plugin to annotate and tools to...

binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfdelfslurpsecondaryrelocsection in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability...

binutils: Heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_getl_signed_32() in libbfd.c because sh_entsize is not validated in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section() in elf.c

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.35.1. A heap-based buffer over-read can occur in bfdgetlsigned32 in libbfd.c because shentsize is not validated in bfdelfslurpsecondaryrelocsection in elf.c...

json-c security and bug fix update

An update is available for json-c. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows users to easil...

sevctl bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for sevctl. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterprise...

grubby bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for grubby. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterprise...

emacs bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for emacs. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterprise...

smc-tools bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for smc-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterpri...

tboot bug fix and enhancement update

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section...

hwdata bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for hwdata. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterprise...

tss2 bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for tss2. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterprise...

watchdog bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for watchdog. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Enterpris...

Moderate: binutils security update

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 Fixes: binutils: Excessive debug...

ALSA-2021:4364 Moderate: binutils security update

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 Fixes: binutils: Excessive debug...