Detections
Analytics

CentOS 9 : mingw-binutils-2.39-2.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191312

Language:

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for mingw-binutils-generic.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mingw- binutils-2.39-2.el9 build changelog.

 - In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file. (CVE-2022-38533)

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 CentOS 9 Stream mingw-binutils-generic package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=27981

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191312

File Name: centos9_mingw-binutils-2_39-2.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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-binutils-generic, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ucrt64-binutils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38533