RHEL 8 : annobin (RHSA-2021:4593)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155182

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for annobin.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4593 advisory.

Annobin provides a compiler plugin to annotate and tools to examine compiled binary files.

Security Fix(es):

* Developer environment: Unicode's bidirectional (BiDi) override characters can cause trojan source attacks (CVE-2021-42574)

The following changes were introduced in annobin in order to facilitate detection of BiDi Unicode characters:

This update of annobin adds a new annocheck test to detect the presence of multibyte characters in symbol names.

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL annobin package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:4593.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155182

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4593.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2021

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42574

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:annobin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:annobin-annocheck

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42574

CWE: 838

IAVA: 2021-A-0528

RHSA: 2021:4593

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