An update of the binutils package has been released.

It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
122027	Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-2.0-0119	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	2/7/2019	5/23/2022	medium
135398	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libiberty vulnerabilities (USN-4326-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/10/2020	10/21/2023	high
135966	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/24/2020	10/21/2023	critical
151919	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/21/2021	10/20/2023	critical

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