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GLSA-202407-16 : GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201912

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-16 (GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability)

 A vulnerability has been discovered in the Coreutils split program that can lead to a heap buffer overflow and possibly arbitrary code execution.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo 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

All Coreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-apps/coreutils-9.4-r1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202407-16

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922474

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 201912

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202407-16.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/5/2024

Updated: 7/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-0684

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:coreutils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0684