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RHEL 8 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 200030

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 finish_stab in stabs.c (CVE-2018-12699)

 - binutils version 2.32 and earlier contains a Integer Overflow vulnerability in objdump, bfd_get_dynamic_reloc_upper_bound,bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_reloc that can result in Integer overflow trigger heap overflow. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Local. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 3a551c7a1b80fca579461774860574eabfd7f18f. (CVE-2018-1000876)

 - 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)

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: Critical

ID: 200030

File Name: redhat_unpatched_binutils-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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12699

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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-2018-1000876, CVE-2018-10535, CVE-2018-12641, CVE-2018-12697, CVE-2018-12698, CVE-2018-12699, 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-2019-9075, CVE-2019-9077, CVE-2020-16598, CVE-2020-35448, CVE-2020-35493, CVE-2020-35494, CVE-2020-35495, CVE-2020-35496, CVE-2020-35507, CVE-2021-20294, CVE-2021-3487, CVE-2021-45078, CVE-2022-38533, CVE-2023-1972, CVE-2023-25584, CVE-2023-25585, CVE-2023-25588