RHEL 4 : binutils (RHSA-2005:673)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19991

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for binutils.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:673 advisory.

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

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. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1704 to this issue.

In addition, the following bugs have been fixed:

-- 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
-- fix linker's --emit-relocs with .gnu.warning.* section symbols
-- fix gprof on 64-bit ppc binaries and libraries
-- fix gas mapping of register names to dwarf2 register numbers in CFI directives

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

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-2005:673.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19991

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-673.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/11/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-1704

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1704

RHSA: 2005:673

Detections

Analytics