Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-9077 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
Application | 1 | |
Application | 2 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-1_0-0218_BINUTILS.NASL description An update of the binutils package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125161 published 2019-05-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125161 title Photon OS 1.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-1.0-0218 code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2019-1.0-0218. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(125161); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/16"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-9075", "CVE-2019-9077"); script_name(english:"Photon OS 1.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-1.0-0218"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of the binutils package has been released."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-1.0-218.md"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected Linux packages."); 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:U/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:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-9077"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/11/25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/03/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:binutils"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:1.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/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/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 1\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 1.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"binutils-2.31-4.ph1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"binutils-debuginfo-2.31-4.ph1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-1.0", reference:"binutils-devel-2.31-4.ph1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils"); }
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1270.NASL description According to the version of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.(CVE-2019-9077) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123738 published 2019-04-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123738 title EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-1270) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(123738); script_version("1.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/27"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2019-9077" ); script_name(english:"EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-1270)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to the version of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.(CVE-2019-9077) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues."); # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-1270 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0655fe2c"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected binutils package."); 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:U/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:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/04/01"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/04/04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); 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/EulerOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS"); uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); if (uvp != "2.5.3") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i686 / x86_64", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = ["binutils-2.25.1-22.base.h21"]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils"); }
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1278.NASL description According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.(CVE-2019-9077) - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.(CVE-2018-19932) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-04-04 plugin id 123746 published 2019-04-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123746 title EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-1278) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(123746); script_version("1.5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/04"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2018-19932", "CVE-2019-9077" ); script_name(english:"EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-1278)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.(CVE-2019-9077) - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.(CVE-2018-19932) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues."); # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-1278 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b85d7a22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected binutils packages."); 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:U/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:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/04/03"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/04/04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/sp"); script_exclude_keys("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); 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/EulerOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS"); if (release !~ "^EulerOS release 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0"); sp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/sp"); if (isnull(sp) || sp !~ "^(3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3"); uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); if (!empty_or_null(uvp)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3", "EulerOS UVP " + uvp); if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i686 / x86_64", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = ["binutils-2.25.1-22.base.h22", "binutils-devel-2.25.1-22.base.h22"]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", sp:"3", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "binutils"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-1_0-0218_TCPDUMP.NASL description An update of the tcpdump package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125162 published 2019-05-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125162 title Photon OS 1.0: Tcpdump PHSA-2019-1.0-0218 NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1132.NASL description According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.(CVE-2019-9077) - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.(CVE-2018-19932) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-04-02 plugin id 123606 published 2019-04-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123606 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-1132) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4336-1.NASL description It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-24 plugin id 135966 published 2020-04-24 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135966 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-1) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-2_0-0173_BINUTILS.NASL description An update of the binutils package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128734 published 2019-09-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128734 title Photon OS 2.0: Binutils PHSA-2019-2.0-0173 NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1728.NASL description According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - binutils: integer overflow leads to heap-based buffer overflow in objdump(CVE-2018-1000876) - An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in process_mips_specific in readelf.c via a malformed MIPS option section.(CVE-2019-9077) - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.(CVE-2018-19932) - An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.(CVE-2018-17360) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-07-22 plugin id 126855 published 2019-07-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126855 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2019-1728)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107139
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24243
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K00056379
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K00056379
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24243
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190314-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-24
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107139
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html