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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-2212)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151768

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.(CVE-2021-3487)

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.

Solution

Update the affected binutils package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?99f0995b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151768

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2212.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 7/16/2021

Updated: 7/21/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3487