5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.0%
An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.
Security Fix(es) :
binutils: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in objdump (CVE-2018-1000876)
binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the demangling functions provided by libiberty (CVE-2018-12641)
binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in cplus-dem.c. (CVE-2018-12697)
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.
Additional Changes :
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:2075 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2019:2075 respectively.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(128346);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/30");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-1000876", "CVE-2018-12641", "CVE-2018-12697");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2019:2075");
script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : binutils (CESA-2019:2075)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the
manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It
includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf,
size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.
Security Fix(es) :
* binutils: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in
objdump (CVE-2018-1000876)
* binutils: Stack Exhaustion in the demangling functions provided by
libiberty (CVE-2018-12641)
* binutils: NULL pointer dereference in work_stuff_copy_to_from in
cplus-dem.c. (CVE-2018-12697)
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.
Additional Changes :
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.");
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/005818.html
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b6a53fdd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected binutils packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-1000876");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/06/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/08/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:binutils-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 7.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"binutils-2.27-41.base.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"binutils-devel-2.27-41.base.el7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
cr_plugin_caveat = '\n' +
'NOTE: The security advisory associated with this vulnerability has a\n' +
'fixed package version that may only be available in the continuous\n' +
'release (CR) repository for CentOS, until it is present in the next\n' +
'point release of CentOS.\n\n' +
'If an equal or higher package level does not exist in the baseline\n' +
'repository for your major version of CentOS, then updates from the CR\n' +
'repository will need to be applied in order to address the\n' +
'vulnerability.\n';
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get() + cr_plugin_caveat
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils / binutils-devel");
}
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
77.0%