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GLSA-202409-22 : GCC: Flawed Code Generation

high Nessus Plugin ID 207669

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-22 (GCC: Flawed Code Generation)

 A vulnerability has been discovered in GCC. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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 GCC users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-devel/gcc-10.0 And then select it with gcc-config:

 # gcc-config latest In this case, users should also rebuild all affected packages with emerge -e, e.g.:

 # emerge --usepkg=n --emptytree @world

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202409-22

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719466

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207669

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202409-22.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15847

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15847