Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : binutils regression (USN-136-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20528

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that the packages from USN-136-1 had a flawed patch with regressions that caused the ld linker to fail. The updated packages fix this.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20528

File Name: ubuntu_USN-136-2.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:binutils-multiarch, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2005

Reference Information

USN: 136-2