MiracleLinux 8 : rust-toolset:rhel8 (AXSA:2021-2363:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 294703

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2021-2363:01 advisory.

* rust: optimization for joining strings can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (CVE-2020-36323)
* rust: heap-based buffer overflow in read_to_end() because it does not validate the return value from Read in an unsafe context (CVE-2021-28875)
* rust: panic safety issue in Zip implementation (CVE-2021-28876)
* rust: memory safety violation in Zip implementation for nested iter::Zips (CVE-2021-28877)
* rust: memory safety violation in Zip implementation when next_back() and next() are used together (CVE-2021-28878)
* rust: integer overflow in the Zip implementation can lead to a buffer overflow (CVE-2021-28879)
* rust: double free in Vec::from_iter function if freeing the element panics (CVE-2021-31162)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 294703

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2021-2363.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31162

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:miracle:linux:rust-doc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-gdb, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-std-static, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:clippy, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cargo, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-toolset, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rustfmt, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-analysis, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-debugger-common, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cargo-doc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rls, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-src, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rust-lldb

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: 8/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36323, CVE-2021-28875, CVE-2021-28876, CVE-2021-28877, CVE-2021-28878, CVE-2021-28879, CVE-2021-31162

Detections

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