GNU Bison before 3.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). NOTE: there is a risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and an observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with a specific compiler/architecture. The bug reports were intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - bison: allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-14150)

  - Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn     by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none (CVE-2020-24979)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - bison: allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-14150)

  - Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn     by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none (CVE-2020-24979)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to the versions of the bison packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - GNU Bison before 3.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). NOTE: there is a     risk only if Bison is used with untrusted input, and an observed bug happens to cause unsafe behavior with     a specific compiler/architecture. The bug reports were intended to show that a crash may occur in Bison     itself, not that a crash may occur in code that is generated by Bison. (CVE-2020-14150)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198728	RHEL 7 : bison (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
198712	RHEL 8 : bison (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196647	RHEL 5 : bison (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196640	RHEL 6 : bison (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
179537	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : bison (EulerOS-SA-2023-2604)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
179530	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : bison (EulerOS-SA-2023-2574)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium

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