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Debian DLA-552-1 : binutils security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 92380

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Some minor security issues have been identified and fixed in binutils in Debian LTS. These are :

CVE-2016-2226

Exploitable buffer overflow.

CVE-2016-4487

Invalid write due to a use-after-free to array btypevec.

CVE-2016-4488

Invalid write due to a use-after-free to array ktypevec.

CVE-2016-4489

Invalid write due to integer overflow.

CVE-2016-4490

Write access violation.

CVE-2016-4492

Write access violations.

CVE-2016-4493

Read access violations.

CVE-2016-6131

Stack buffer overflow when printing bad bytes in Intel Hex objects

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.22-8+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your binutils packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/07/msg00014.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/binutils

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92380

File Name: debian_DLA-552.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:debian:debian_linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils-gold, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils-multiarch, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils-source, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:binutils-spu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2226, CVE-2016-4487, CVE-2016-4488, CVE-2016-4489, CVE-2016-4490, CVE-2016-4492, CVE-2016-4493, CVE-2016-6131