GLSA-202309-15 : GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 182400

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Description

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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Binutils. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All GNU Binutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-devel/binutils-2.40

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182400

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202309-15.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 9/30/2023

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1579

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: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:binutils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38533, CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2023-1579, CVE-2023-1972

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