ELBA-2019-4858

ELBA-2019-4858 - binutils bug fix update

Type:	BUG
Impact:	NA
Release Date:	2019-11-23

Description

[2.30-58.0.2]
- CVE-2018-12207 / Intel SKX102
- Introduce the following gas options:
-malign-branch
-malign-branch-boundary
-malign-branch-prefix-size
-mbranches-within-32B-boundaries
- Lessen the performance hit due to the Mitigation of Intel's JCC Erratum by
backporting the patch series that teach gas not to place various jump
instructions at the end of 32 byte boundries or across such boundaries.
- Prepatory patches:
binutils-2.31-i386-gas-01-add-.nop-assembler-directive.patch
binutils-2.31-i386-gas-02-rewrite-NOP-generation.patch
binutils-2.31-i386-gas-03-insns-exceeding-the-15-byte.patch
binutils-2.31-i386-gas-04-pass-max_bytes-to-TC_FRAG_INIT.patch
- Mitigation Patches:
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-01-add-md_cons_worker.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-02-add-md_generic_table_relax_frag.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-03-align-branches-within-a-fixed-boundary.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-04-add-mbranches-within-32B-boundaries.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-05-add-tests-for-malign-branch-boundary-and-malign.patch
- Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	sha256	Superseded By Advisory	Channel Label
Oracle Linux 8 (aarch64)	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.src.rpm	53c37f2026592a033cdad1963003c3bf25cfeaac0911301240a9930d7b915fdc	-	ol8_aarch64_appstream
	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.src.rpm	53c37f2026592a033cdad1963003c3bf25cfeaac0911301240a9930d7b915fdc	-	ol8_aarch64_baseos_latest
	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.aarch64.rpm	0b455f689bbe2de373460558fb466e37621f6154a18805b9c7c8c0def8918d70	-	ol8_aarch64_baseos_latest
	binutils-devel-2.30-58.0.2.el8.aarch64.rpm	179fb4d21750b00a746c40c2ef305d7d150b5e6d322fbe1600be232d9993d4a4	-	ol8_aarch64_appstream
Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.src.rpm	53c37f2026592a033cdad1963003c3bf25cfeaac0911301240a9930d7b915fdc	-	ol8_x86_64_appstream
	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.src.rpm	53c37f2026592a033cdad1963003c3bf25cfeaac0911301240a9930d7b915fdc	-	ol8_x86_64_baseos_latest
	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.src.rpm	53c37f2026592a033cdad1963003c3bf25cfeaac0911301240a9930d7b915fdc	-	ol8_x86_64_u1_baseos_patch
	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.x86_64.rpm	dfb36211fe2197fa1ad58279d6f390cb62f1bf5423e91968b1b909d30b85cfdf	-	ol8_x86_64_baseos_latest
	binutils-2.30-58.0.2.el8.x86_64.rpm	dfb36211fe2197fa1ad58279d6f390cb62f1bf5423e91968b1b909d30b85cfdf	-	ol8_x86_64_u1_baseos_patch
	binutils-devel-2.30-58.0.2.el8.i686.rpm	51ae31de51e092155c00f81b3be5e72686b611ea8ac6c928c66595fb42d44891	-	ol8_x86_64_appstream
	binutils-devel-2.30-58.0.2.el8.x86_64.rpm	c41ff9207e5d76ec7d7475e12633a4c281b9e13388729b80aacf8e89844f46fc	-	ol8_x86_64_appstream

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