Hao Wang reports :
There’s a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36.
An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to system availability by way of excessive memory consumption.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(152668);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/08/23");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-3487");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : binutils -- excessive debug section size can cause excessive memory consumption in bfd's dwarf2.c read_section() (f4c54b81-bcc8-11eb-a7a6-080027f515ea)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Hao Wang reports :
There's a flaw in the BFD library of binutils in versions before 2.36.
An attacker who supplies a crafted file to an application linked with
BFD, and using the DWARF functionality, could cause an impact to
system availability by way of excessive memory consumption."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26946"
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# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/f4c54b81-bcc8-11eb-a7a6-080027f515ea.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?63bca191"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:binutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/11/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/08/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/08/19");
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script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"binutils<2.33.1_5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");