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RHEL 8 : binutils (RHSA-2020:4465)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143093

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for binutils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4465 advisory.

 The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

 Security Fix(es):

 * binutils: denial of service via crafted ELF file (CVE-2019-17450)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL binutils package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4465.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?44b830f6

http://www.nessus.org/u?959d685a

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4465

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678323

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1771677

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1807308

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869401

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143093

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4465.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17450

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17450

CWE: 121

RHSA: 2020:4465