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RHEL 7 : gcc (RHSA-2025:1601)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216435

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:1601 advisory.

 The gcc packages provide compilers for C, C++, Java, Fortran, Objective C, and Ada 95 GNU, as well as related support libraries.

 Security Fix(es):

 * jquery: Untrusted code execution via <option> tag in HTML passed to DOM manipulation methods (CVE-2020-11023)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 gcc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:1601.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850004

http://www.nessus.org/u?e79667b7

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1601

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216435

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-1601.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2025

Updated: 2/19/2025

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: 5.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11023

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgnat-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmudflap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgfortran, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libstdc%2b%2b-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libquadmath-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgomp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-objc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgnat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgnat-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libitm-static, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgo-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libitm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libasan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libstdc%2b%2b-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libatomic, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libquadmath-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libquadmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtsan-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtsan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgo-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libstdc%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-gnat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libobjc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-gfortran, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-plugin-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libitm-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmudflap-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-go, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gcc-objc%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libstdc%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgfortran-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libasan-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libatomic-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libmudflap-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 2/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11023

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2025:1601