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RHEL 8 : binutils (RHSA-2023:6236)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184134

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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-2023:6236 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: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

 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.

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-2023:6236.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad422100

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150768

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6236

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184134

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6236.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4285

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:rhel_eus:8.8, 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: 11/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4285

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2023:6236