There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed by binutils could cause usage of uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to application availability with a lower threat to data confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions prior to 2.34.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202107-24 (Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binutils. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

According to the versions of the bindutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed     by the objdump program could cause a null pointer     dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35495)

  - There's a flaw in bfd_pef_scan_start_address() of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior     to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35496)

  - There's a flaw in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs of     bfd/pef.c in binutils in versions prior to 2.34 which     could allow an attacker who is able to submit a crafted     file to be processed by objdump to cause a NULL pointer     dereference. The greatest threat of this flaw is to     application availability.(CVE-2020-35507)

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

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as     distributed in GNU Binutils 2.34, in     debug_get_real_type, as demonstrated in objdump, that     can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16598)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

  - The process_version_sections function in readelf.c in     GNU Binutils 2.29 allows attackers to cause a denial of     service (Integer Overflow, and hang because of a     time-consuming loop) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted binary file with invalid values of     ent.vn_next, during 'readelf -a'     execution.(CVE-2017-14333)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

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

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as     distributed in GNU Binutils 2.34, in     debug_get_real_type, as demonstrated in objdump, that     can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16598)

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

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - ** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.
    ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn     by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was     not a security issue. Notes: none.(CVE-2020-16598)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

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

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

  - There's a flaw in bfd_pef_scan_start_address() of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior     to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35496)

  - There's a flaw in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior     to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35507)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed     by the objdump program could cause a null pointer     dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35495)

  - A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as     distributed in GNU Binutils 2.34, in     debug_get_real_type, as demonstrated in objdump, that     can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16598)

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

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

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

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

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the     Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as     distributed in GNU Binutils 2.34, in     debug_get_real_type, as demonstrated in objdump, that     can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16598)

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - A flaw was found in binutils. An attacker who is able     to submit a crafted input file to be processed by the     objdump program could cause a null pointer dereference.
    The greatest threat from this flaw is to application     availability.(CVE-2020-35495)

  - A flaw was found in binutils. An attacker who is able     to submit a crafted input file to be processed by     binutils could cause usage of uninitialized memory. The     highest threat is to application availability with a     lower threat to data confidentiality.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils in bfd/pef.c. This flaw     allows an attacker who can submit a crafted PEF file to     be parsed by objdump to cause a heap buffer overflow,     leading to an out-of-bounds read. The highest threat     from this vulnerability is to system     availability.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - A flaw was found in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability.(CVE-2020-35507)

  - A flaw was found in bfd_pef_scan_start_address() of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability.(CVE-2020-35496)

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

An update of the binutils package has been released.

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed     in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (infinite recursion and application     crash) via a crafted ELF file.(CVE-2019-17450)

  - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor     (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU     Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a     SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as     demonstrated by nm.(CVE-2019-17451)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

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

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Null Pointer Dereference in debug_get_real_type could     result in DoS(CVE-2020-16598)

  - A use after free issue exists in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) in GNU Binutils     2.34 in bfd_hash_lookup, as demonstrated in nm-new,     that can cause a denial of service via a crafted     file.(CVE-2020-16592)

  - There's a flaw in bfd_pef_parse_function_stubs of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior     to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35507)

  - A flaw exists in binutils in bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted PEF file to be parsed by     objdump could cause a heap buffer overflow ->     out-of-bounds read that could lead to an impact to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35493)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /opcodes/tic4x-dis.c. An     attacker who is able to submit a crafted input file to     be processed by binutils could cause usage of     uninitialized memory. The highest threat is to     application availability with a lower threat to data     confidentiality. This flaw affects binutils versions     prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35494)

  - There's a flaw in binutils /bfd/pef.c. An attacker who     is able to submit a crafted input file to be processed     by the objdump program could cause a null pointer     dereference. The greatest threat from this flaw is to     application availability. This flaw affects binutils     versions prior to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35495)

  - There's a flaw in bfd_pef_scan_start_address() of     bfd/pef.c in binutils which could allow an attacker who     is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by     objdump to cause a NULL pointer dereference. The     greatest threat of this flaw is to application     availability. This flaw affects binutils versions prior     to 2.34.(CVE-2020-35496)

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

Backport patches for CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
157002	GLSA-202107-24 : Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
151388	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : bindutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-2128)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
149165	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1767)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
148067	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1670)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
147574	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1408)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
147456	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1388)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
147451	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1459)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
147036	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1580)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
146876	Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2021-2.0-0321	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
146864	Photon OS 1.0: Binutils PHSA-2021-1.0-0362	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
146775	Photon OS 3.0: Binutils PHSA-2021-3.0-0196	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
146710	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1282)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
145773	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1135)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
144828	Fedora 32 : mingw-binutils (2020-28c78a6ac3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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