binutils 2.20.1-3ubuntu7.2 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

binutils (2.20.1-3ubuntu7.2) lucid-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: integer overflow in objalloc_alloc
    - debian/patches/300-CVE-2012-3509.dpatch: Add overflow check
      covering alignment and CHUNK_HEADER_SIZE addition.
    - CVE-2012-3509
  * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds read in srec_scan of bfd/srec.c
    - debian/patches/301-CVE-2014-8484.dpatch: report an error for
      S-records with less than the miniumum size
    - CVE-2014-8484
  * SECURITY UPDATE: incorrect memory handling around corrupt group
    section headers
    - debian/patches/302-CVE-2014-8485.dpatch: Improve handling of
      corrupt group sections
    - CVE-2014-8485
  * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds write in _bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_in
    - debian/patches/303-CVE-2014-8501.dpatch: Handle corrupt binaries
      with an invalid value for NumberOfRvaAndSizes.
    - CVE-2014-8501
  * SECURITY UPDATE: pe_print_edata buffer overflow
    - debian/patches/304-CVE-2014-8502.dpatch: Detect out of
      range and truncated rvas or entry counts
    - CVE-2014-8502
  * SECURITY UPDATE: ihex_scan buffer overflow
    - debian/patches/305-CVE-2014-8503.dpatch: Fix typo in
      invocation of ihex_bad_byte.
    - CVE-2014-8503
  * SECURITY UPDATE: srec_scan buffer overflow
    - debian/patches/306-CVE-2014-8504.dpatch: Increase size of buf
    - CVE-2014-8504
  * SECURITY UPDATE: directory traversal vulnerabilities
    - debian/patches/307-CVE-2014-8737.dpatch: disallow paths that
      include ../
    - CVE-2014-8737
  * SECURITY UPDATE: _bfd_slurp_extended_name_table out-of-bounds write
    - debian/patches/308-CVE-2014-8738.dpatch: Handle archives
      with corrupt extended name tables.
    - CVE-2014-8738
  * SECURITY UPDATE: multiple miscellaneous overflows and out-of-bounds
    reads and writes
    - debian/patches/309-bz17512-misc.dpatch: fix invalid memory
      accesses.
  * Security hardening: don't use libbfd by default in strings(1)
    - debian/patches/310-harden_strings.dpatch: Add new command
      line option --data to only scan the initialized, loadable data
      sections of binaries, using libbfd; make --all the default.
 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden>   Mon, 09 Feb 2015 02:27:20 -0800