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RHEL 3 : binutils (RHSA-2005:659)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19831

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated binutils package that fixes several bugs and minor security issues is now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Binutils is a collection of utilities used for the creation of executable code. A number of bugs were found in various binutils tools.

Several integer overflow bugs were found in binutils. If a user is tricked into processing a specially crafted executable with utilities such as readelf, size, strings, objdump, or nm, it may allow the execution of arbitrary code as the user running the utility. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-1704 to this issue.

Additionally, the following bugs have been fixed :

-- correct alignment of .tbss section if the requested alignment of .tbss is bigger than requested alignment of .tdata section -- by default issue an error if IA-64 hint@pause instruction is put into the B slot, add assembler command line switch to override this behaviour

All users of binutils should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected binutils package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-1704

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:659

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19831

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-659.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1704

RHSA: 2005:659