SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1

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    SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1

    Published: 9 Nov 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-20294

    Summary: Security update for binutils

    Details: This update for binutils fixes the following issues: - For compatibility on old code stream that expect 'brcl 0,label' to not be disassembled as 'jgnop label' on s390x. (bsc#1192267) This reverts IBM zSeries HLASM support for now. - Fixed that ppc64 optflags did not enable LTO (bsc#1188941). - Fix empty man-pages from broken release tarball - Fixed a memory corruption with rpath option (bsc#1191473). - Fixed slow performance of stripping some binaries (bsc#1183909). Security issue fixed: - CVE-2021-20294: Fixed out-of-bounds write in print_dynamic_symbol in readelf (bnc#1184519)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20213643-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183909, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184519, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188941, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191473, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192267, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20294

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.37-7.26.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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