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RHEL 9 : mingw-gcc (RHSA-2022:8415)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167583

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for mingw-gcc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8415 advisory.

 The gcc packages provide compilers for C, C++, Java, Fortran, Objective C, and Ada 95 GNU, as well as related support libraries.

 Security Fix(es):

 * gcc: uncontrolled recursion in libiberty/rust-demangle.c (CVE-2021-46195)

 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 9.1 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 mingw-gcc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8415.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1f1eb6cc

http://www.nessus.org/u?6613ef12

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8415

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2046300

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2080170

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2096010

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167583

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8415.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2022

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-2021-46195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-gcc-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-gcc-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libgcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-gcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-gcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libgcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-gcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-cpp

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: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46195

CWE: 674

RHSA: 2022:8415