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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gdm (EulerOS-SA-2017-1174)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103012

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the gdm package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - It was found that gdm could crash due to a signal handler dispatched to an invalid conversation. An attacker could crash gdm by holding the escape key when the screen is locked, possibly bypassing the locked screen. (CVE-2015-7496)

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.

Solution

Update the affected gdm package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a908e0e6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103012

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1174.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Published: 9/8/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gdm, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7496