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CentOS 9 : gcc-toolset-13-binutils-2.40-8.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191276

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates for gcc-toolset-13-binutils.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the gcc-toolset-13-binutils-2.40-8.el9 build changelog.

 - GNU binutils gold gold v1.11-v1.16 (GNU binutils v2.21-v2.31.1) is affected by: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is:
 gold/fileread.cc:497, elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h:644. The attack vector is: An ELF file with an invalid e_shoff header field must be opened. (CVE-2019-1010204)

 - There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink. (CVE-2021-20197)

 - A flaw was discovered in GNU libiberty within demangle_path() in rust-demangle.c, as distributed in GNU Binutils version 2.36. A crafted symbol can cause stack memory to be exhausted leading to a crash.
 (CVE-2021-3530)

 - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

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 CentOS 9 Stream gcc-toolset-13-binutils package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=33113

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191276

File Name: centos9_gcc-toolset-13-binutils-2_40-8.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-gold, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gcc-toolset-13-binutils-gprofng

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010204, CVE-2021-20197, CVE-2021-3530, CVE-2022-4285