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MiracleLinux 8 : binutils-2.30-108.el8.1 (AXSA:2022-2955:01)

high Nessus Plugin ID 294130

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2022-2955:01 advisory.

 * Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574) The following changes were introduced in binutils in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:
 Tools which display names or strings (readelf, strings, nm, objdump) have a new command line option
 --unicode / -U which controls how Unicode characters are handled.
 Using \--unicode=default will treat them as normal for the tool. This is the default behaviour when
 --unicode option is not used.
 Using \--unicode=locale will display them according to the current locale.
 Using \--unicode=hex will display them as hex byte values.
 Using \--unicode=escape will display them as Unicode escape sequences.
 Using \--unicode=highlight will display them as Unicode escape sequences highlighted in red, if supported by the output device.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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 binutils and / or binutils-devel packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/14137

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 294130

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2022-2955.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42574

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:binutils, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:binutils-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42574