Fedora 21 : mingw-binutils-2.25-1.fc21 (2014-17586)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80321

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix various CVE's

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mingw-binutils package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162578

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162602

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162612

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162626

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162660

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162673

http://www.nessus.org/u?54570fec

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80321

File Name: fedora_2014-17586.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-binutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8501, CVE-2014-8502, CVE-2014-8503, CVE-2014-8504, CVE-2014-8737, CVE-2014-8738

BID: 70761, 70866, 70868, 70869

FEDORA: 2014-17586