An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-3d9f2bed46 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the gcc-toolset-13-binutils-2.40-8.el9 build changelog.

  - GNU binutils gold gold v1.11-v1.16 (GNU binutils v2.21-v2.31.1) is affected by: Improper Input Validation,     Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is:
    gold/fileread.cc:497, elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h:644. The attack vector is: An ELF file with an invalid e_shoff     header field must be opened. (CVE-2019-1010204)

  - There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35     and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as     part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities     into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink. (CVE-2021-20197)

  - A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU     Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.
    (CVE-2021-3530)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mingw-binutils-2.40-3.el9 build changelog.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - Rejected reason: 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-2023-25587)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:6236 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6544-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers     to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-19726)

  - Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function bfd_getl32 in Binutils objdump 3.37. (CVE-2021-46174)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function     display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-35205)

  - In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called     from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file. (CVE-2022-38533)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7394 advisory.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6593 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:6236 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6593 advisory.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:6236 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6236 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6236 advisory.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202309-15 (GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

  - In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called     from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file. (CVE-2022-38533)

  - Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers     to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-19726)

  - An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.36. It is a stack-overflow     issue in demangle_type in rust-demangle.c. (CVE-2021-32256)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function     display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-35205)

  - Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function     read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c. (CVE-2022-35206)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-44840)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-45703)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out     of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2022-47673)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c. (CVE-2022-47695)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols. (CVE-2022-47696)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a     DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48063)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. (CVE-2022-48065)

  - ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This     vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor.
    The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this     vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically     addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or     input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled. (CVE-2023-0687)

  - Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service. (CVE-2023-25588)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers     to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-19726)

  - An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.36. It is a stack-overflow     issue in demangle_type in rust-demangle.c. (CVE-2021-32256)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function     display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-35205)

  - Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function     read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c. (CVE-2022-35206)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-44840)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-45703)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out     of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2022-47673)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c. (CVE-2022-47695)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols. (CVE-2022-47696)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a     DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48063)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. (CVE-2022-48065)

  - ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This     vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor.
    The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this     vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically     addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or     input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled. (CVE-2023-0687)

  - Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service. (CVE-2023-25588)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption when deflating (i.e., when compressing) if the input has many     distant matches. (CVE-2018-25032)

  - zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a     large gzip header extra field. NOTE: only applications that call inflateGetHeader are affected. Some     common applications bundle the affected zlib source code but may be unable to call inflateGetHeader (e.g.,     see the nodejs/node reference). (CVE-2022-37434)

  - Rejected reason: 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-2022-38126)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3269 advisory.

  - libiberty: Heap/stack buffer overflow in the dlang_lname function in d-demangle.c (CVE-2021-3826)

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-2873 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2873 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2873 advisory.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

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.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-11256597a8 advisory.

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-07d49bd9a8 advisory.

  - NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault [fedora-all]     (CVE-2022-4285)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194534	Fedora 37 : mingw-binutils (2023-3d9f2bed46)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
191276	CentOS 9 : gcc-toolset-13-binutils-2.40-8.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
191196	CentOS 9 : mingw-binutils-2.40-3.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
190155	CentOS 8 : binutils (CESA-2023:6236)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
186720	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-6544-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
186048	RHEL 8 : binutils (RHSA-2023:7394)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
185833	Oracle Linux 9 : binutils (ELSA-2023-6593)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
185475	Rocky Linux 8 : binutils (RLSA-2023:6236)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
185148	RHEL 9 : binutils (RHSA-2023:6593)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
184447	AlmaLinux 8 : binutils (ALSA-2023:6236)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
184187	Oracle Linux 8 : binutils (ELSA-2023-6236)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
184134	RHEL 8 : binutils (RHSA-2023:6236)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
182400	GLSA-202309-15 : GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
182107	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
181753	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
176883	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2106)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
176825	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2054)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
176321	RHEL 7 : devtoolset-12-binutils (RHSA-2023:3269)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
176312	Oracle Linux 8 : gcc-toolset-12-binutils (ELSA-2023-2873)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
176157	AlmaLinux 8 : gcc-toolset-12-binutils (ALSA-2023:2873)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
175833	RHEL 8 : gcc-toolset-12-binutils (RHSA-2023:2873)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
175264	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-1755)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
175234	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-1777)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
169937	Fedora 36 : mingw-binutils (2023-11256597a8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
169276	Fedora 36 : insight (2022-07d49bd9a8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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