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Oracle Linux 9 : gdb (ELSA-2023-6372)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185868

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6372 advisory.

 [10.2.11.0.1]
 - Merge Oracle patches for ol9 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]>

 [10.2-11.el9]
 - Backport 'libiberty: prevent buffer overflow when decoding user input' (Luis Ferreira, RHBZ2132600)

 * Mon Mar 27 2023 Bruno Larsen <[email protected]>
 - Backport '[gdb/breakpoint] Fix assert in jit_event_handler' (Tom de Vries, RHBZ 2130624)

 * Thu Mar 23 2023 Bruno Larsen <[email protected]>
 - Bakport 'Fix assertion failure in copy_type' (Tom Tromey, RHBZ 2155439)
 - Bakport '[gdb/testsuite] Fix PR20630 regression test in gdb.base/printcmds.exp' (Tom de Vries)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-6372.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185868

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-6372.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2023

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3826

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-gdbserver, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-headless, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:3:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-minimal, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb-doc, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:gdb

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3826