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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-2212)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 151768
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the version of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :- There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.(CVE-2021-3487)
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.
Solution
Update the affected binutils package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 151768
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2212.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 7/16/2021
Updated: 7/21/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-3487