SUSE SLED15: binutils / binutils-devel / binutils-devel-32bit / binutils-gold / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155005

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1 advisory.

- For compatibility on old code stream that expect 'brcl 0,label' to not be disassembled as 'jgnop label' on s390x. (bsc#1192267) This reverts IBM zSeries HLASM support for now.
- Fixed that ppc64 optflags did not enable LTO (bsc#1188941).
- Fix empty man-pages from broken release tarball
- Fixed a memory corruption with rpath option (bsc#1191473).
- Fixed slow performance of stripping some binaries (bsc#1183909).

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2021-20294: Fixed out-of-bounds write in print_dynamic_symbol in readelf (bnc#1184519)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155005

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3643-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2021

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20294

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:binutils-gold, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:binutils-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libctf-nobfd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libctf0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20294

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3643-1

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