GLSA-202309-15 : GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 182400

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202309-15 (GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

- An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

- In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file. (CVE-2022-38533)

- Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

- A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All GNU Binutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-devel/binutils-2.40

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182400

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202309-15.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 9/30/2023

Updated: 9/30/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1579

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:binutils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38126, CVE-2022-38127, CVE-2022-38128, CVE-2022-38533, CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2023-1579, CVE-2023-1972

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