From tsl@trustix.org Tue May 31 11:58:21 2005 From: Trustix Security Advisor To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:29:40 +0200 Subject: TSL-2005-0025 - binutils -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2005-0025 Package name: binutils Summary: integer overflow Date: 2005-05-31 Affected versions: Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 Trustix Operating System - Enterprise Server 2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package description: Binutils is a collection of utilities necessary for compiling programs. It includes the assembler and linker, as well as a number of other miscellaneous programs for dealing with executable formats. Problem description: Tavis Ormandy found an integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) parser in the GNU debugger. The same vulnerable code is also present in binutils. By tricking an user into processing a specially crafted executable with the binutils tools (strings, objdump, nm, readelf, etc.), an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1704 to this issue. Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your system. Location: All Trustix Secure Linux updates are available from About Trustix Secure Linux: Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software updater. Automatic updates: Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'. Questions? Check out our mailing lists: Verification: This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key is available from: The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at and or directly at MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7444d655cd9438bad6704cce2d0b4364 2.2/rpms/binutils-2.14-4tr.i586.rpm 279bdc8be90d4625dad896dd5bd604ab 2.1/rpms/binutils-2.14-4tr.i586.rpm - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCnGVvi8CEzsK9IksRAgeVAJ9yAtYCzN0/0rnt2U9drQXLQvXS/ACeI6fG +g8qNf+veM4s2bSHIwmH2z0= =cuaq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----