RHEL 8 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

high Nessus Plugin ID 200030

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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: Integer overflow in cplus-dem.c:get_count() allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-18483)

- The ignore_section_sym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, does not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab entry with a SECTION type that has a 0 value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy.
(CVE-2018-10535)

- An issue was discovered in arm_pt in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30.
Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_arm_hp_template, demangle_class_name, demangle_fund_type, do_type, do_arg, demangle_args, and demangle_nested_args. This can occur during execution of nm-new. (CVE-2018-12641)

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: 200030

File Name: redhat_unpatched_binutils-rhel8.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 10/25/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18483

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-9-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-12-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-toolset-10-binutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils, 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: 2/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10535, CVE-2018-12641, CVE-2018-12697, CVE-2018-12698, CVE-2018-12700, CVE-2018-12934, CVE-2018-13033, CVE-2018-17358, CVE-2018-17360, CVE-2018-17794, CVE-2018-17985, CVE-2018-18309, CVE-2018-18483, CVE-2018-18484, CVE-2018-18605, CVE-2018-18606, CVE-2018-18607, CVE-2018-18700, CVE-2018-18701, CVE-2018-19932, CVE-2018-20002, CVE-2018-20623, CVE-2018-20651, CVE-2018-20671, CVE-2018-6872, CVE-2019-12972, CVE-2019-17451, CVE-2019-9071, CVE-2020-16598, CVE-2020-35448, CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496, CVE-2020-35507, CVE-2021-3487, CVE-2022-38533, CVE-2023-1972, CVE-2023-25584, CVE-2023-25585, CVE-2023-25588

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