Fedora 21 : binutils-2.24-30.fc21 (2015-0750)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80897

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix problems with the ar program reported in FSF PR 17533

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected binutils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162655

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162666

http://www.nessus.org/u?2d24e005

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80897

File Name: fedora_2015-0750.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/22/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:binutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8737, CVE-2014-8738

BID: 70908, 71083

FEDORA: 2015-0750