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RHEL 8 : gdb (Unpatched Vulnerability)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198381

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat 8 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

 - binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c (CVE-2022-44840)

 - An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.36. It is a stack-overflow issue in demangle_type in rust-demangle.c. (CVE-2021-32256)

 - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Solution

The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation guidance.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 198381

File Name: redhat_unpatched_gdb-rhel8.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2022-44840

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-11-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-13-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-12-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-11-gdb, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-binutils

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32256, CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2022-44840, CVE-2022-47007, CVE-2022-47008, CVE-2022-47010, CVE-2022-47011, CVE-2023-2222