Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2021.0341
Category:	Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:	Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2021-0341)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'binutils' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2021-0341 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'binutils' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2021-0341 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: This update provides binutils 2.36.1 and fixes at least the following security issues: 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 (CVE-2021-3487). There is an open race window when writing output in the following utilities in GNU binutils version 2.35 and earlier:ar, objcopy, strip, ranlib. When these utilities are run as a privileged user (presumably as part of a script updating binaries across different users), an unprivileged user can trick these utilities into getting ownership of arbitrary files through a symlink (CVE-2021-20197). For more info about the 2.36 update, see the sourceware link. Affected Software/OS: 'binutils' package(s) on Mageia 8. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 3.3 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-20197 GLSA-202208-30 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-30 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913743 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0009/ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26945 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-3487
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