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CentOS 8 : binutils (CESA-2020:1797)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145841

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:1797 advisory.

 - binutils: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read in gold/fileread.cc and elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-1010204)

 - binutils: integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c (CVE-2019-17451)

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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1797

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145841

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-1797.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2019-17451

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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010204, CVE-2019-17451

BID: 109365

RHSA: 2020:1797