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RHEL 4 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

2024-05-1100:00:00
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3
rhel 4
binutils
unpatched
vulnerabilities
remote
buffer overflow
application crash
denial of service
gnu binutils

8.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.032 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.3%

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  • binutils: Address violation in aarch64_ext_ldst_reglist function when disassembling corrupt aarch64 binary (CVE-2017-9756)

  • The elf_read_notesfunction in bfd/elf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file. (CVE-2017-12799)

  • The score_opcodes function in opcodes/score7-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution.
    (CVE-2017-9742)

  • The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis.c:552 in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9743)

  • The sh_elf_set_mach_from_flags function in bfd/elf32-sh.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9744)

  • The _bfd_vms_slurp_etir function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9745)

  • The disassemble_bytes function in objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of rae insns printing for this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9746)

  • The ieee_archive_p function in bfd/ieee.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. NOTE: this may be related to a compiler bug. (CVE-2017-9747)

  • The ieee_object_p function in bfd/ieee.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. NOTE: this may be related to a compiler bug. (CVE-2017-9748)

  • The regs macros in opcodes/bfin-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9749)

  • opcodes/rx-decode.opc in GNU Binutils 2.28 lacks bounds checks for certain scale arrays, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9750)

  • opcodes/rl78-decode.opc in GNU Binutils 2.28 has an unbounded GETBYTE macro, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9751)

  • bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file in the _bfd_vms_get_value and _bfd_vms_slurp_etir functions during objdump -D execution.
    (CVE-2017-9752)

  • The versados_mkobject function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9753)

  • The process_otr function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not validate a certain offset, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9754)

  • opcodes/i386-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 does not consider the number of registers for bnd mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9755)

  • The getvalue function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted tekhex file, as demonstrated by mishandling within the nm program.
    (CVE-2017-9954)

  • The get_build_id function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file in which a certain size field is larger than a corresponding data field, as demonstrated by mishandling within the objdump program. (CVE-2017-9955)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager’s report that the package is installed.

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##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory binutils. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(195398);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/11");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2017-9742",
    "CVE-2017-9743",
    "CVE-2017-9744",
    "CVE-2017-9745",
    "CVE-2017-9746",
    "CVE-2017-9747",
    "CVE-2017-9748",
    "CVE-2017-9749",
    "CVE-2017-9750",
    "CVE-2017-9751",
    "CVE-2017-9752",
    "CVE-2017-9753",
    "CVE-2017-9754",
    "CVE-2017-9755",
    "CVE-2017-9756",
    "CVE-2017-9954",
    "CVE-2017-9955",
    "CVE-2017-12799"
  );

  script_name(english:"RHEL 4 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat 4 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple
vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: Address violation in aarch64_ext_ldst_reglist function when disassembling corrupt aarch64 binary
    (CVE-2017-9756)

  - The elf_read_notesfunction in bfd/elf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
    service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
    binary file. (CVE-2017-12799)

  - The score_opcodes function in opcodes/score7-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a
    denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a
    crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution.
    (CVE-2017-9742)

  - The print_insn_score32 function in opcodes/score7-dis.c:552 in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers
    to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
    impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D
    execution. (CVE-2017-9743)

  - The sh_elf_set_mach_from_flags function in bfd/elf32-sh.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka
    libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
    overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as
    demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9744)

  - The _bfd_vms_slurp_etir function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka
    libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
    overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as
    demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9745)

  - The disassemble_bytes function in objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
    of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
    binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of rae insns printing for this file during objdump -D
    execution. (CVE-2017-9746)

  - The ieee_archive_p function in bfd/ieee.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as
    distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
    overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as
    demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. NOTE: this may be related to a
    compiler bug. (CVE-2017-9747)

  - The ieee_object_p function in bfd/ieee.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as
    distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer
    overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as
    demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. NOTE: this may be related to a
    compiler bug. (CVE-2017-9748)

  - The *regs* macros in opcodes/bfin-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of
    service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
    binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9749)

  - opcodes/rx-decode.opc in GNU Binutils 2.28 lacks bounds checks for certain scale arrays, which allows
    remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have
    unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during
    objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9750)

  - opcodes/rl78-decode.opc in GNU Binutils 2.28 has an unbounded GETBYTE macro, which allows remote attackers
    to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
    impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D
    execution. (CVE-2017-9751)

  - bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils
    2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or
    possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this
    file in the _bfd_vms_get_value and _bfd_vms_slurp_etir functions during objdump -D execution.
    (CVE-2017-9752)

  - The versados_mkobject function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd),
    as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows remote
    attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have
    unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during
    objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9753)

  - The process_otr function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as
    distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not validate a certain offset, which allows remote attackers to
    cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
    impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during objdump -D
    execution. (CVE-2017-9754)

  - opcodes/i386-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 does not consider the number of registers for bnd mode, which
    allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly
    have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file
    during objdump -D execution. (CVE-2017-9755)

  - The getvalue function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed
    in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read
    and application crash) via a crafted tekhex file, as demonstrated by mishandling within the nm program.
    (CVE-2017-9954)

  - The get_build_id function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as
    distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer
    over-read and application crash) via a crafted file in which a certain size field is larger than a
    corresponding data field, as demonstrated by mishandling within the objdump program. (CVE-2017-9955)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package
is installed.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation
guidance.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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:N/UI:R/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-2017-9756");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/06/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/05/11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils220");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "redhat_repos.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');

if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched"))
exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Red Hat' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Red Hat');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '4')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 4.x', 'Red Hat ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Red Hat', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'binutils', 'release':'4', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'unpatched_pkg':'binutils'}
    ]
  }
];


var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint_array ( constraints ) {
  var repo_relative_urls = NULL;
  var enterprise_linux_flag = rhel_repo_urls_has_content_dist_rhel(repo_urls:repo_relative_urls);
  foreach var pkg ( constraint_array['pkgs'] ) {
    var unpatched_pkg = NULL;
    var _release = NULL;
    var sp = NULL;
    var el_string = NULL;
    var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    var exists_check = NULL;
    var cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['unpatched_pkg'])) unpatched_pkg = pkg['unpatched_pkg'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['release'])) _release = 'RHEL' + pkg['release'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (unpatched_pkg &&
        _release &&
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check)) &&
        unpatched_package_exists(release:_release, package:unpatched_pkg, cves: cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = NULL;
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : unpatched_packages_report()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'binutils');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
redhatenterprise_linux4cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4
redhatenterprise_linux5cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5
redhatenterprise_linux6cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
redhatenterprise_linux7cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
redhatenterprise_linuxbinutilsp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils
redhatenterprise_linuxbinutils220p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:binutils220

References

8.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.032 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.3%