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Fedora 32 : mingw-binutils (2020-f903e139b1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144606

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2020-f903e139b1 advisory.

 Backport patches for CVE-2020-16592 and CVE-2020-16598

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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 mingw-binutils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-f903e139b1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144606

File Name: fedora_2020-f903e139b1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/28/2020

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16592

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-binutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:32

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16592