RHEL 8 : binutils (RHSA-2020:1797)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136054

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1797 advisory.

 - binutils: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read in gold/fileread.cc and elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-1010204)

 - binutils: integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c (CVE-2019-17451)

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

Solution

Update the affected binutils and / or binutils-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1797

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1010204

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17451

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1735604

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1771668

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136054

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1797.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2020

Updated: 1/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17451

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils-devel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010204, CVE-2019-17451

BID: 109365

CWE: 20, 190, 125

RHSA: 2020:1797