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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gtk-vnc (EulerOS-SA-2017-1182)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103020

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the gtk-vnc package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - It was found that gtk-vnc lacked proper bounds checking while processing messages using RRE, hextile, or copyrect encodings. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the gtk-vnc library. (CVE-2017-5884)

 - An integer overflow flaw was found in gtk-vnc. A remote malicious VNC server could use this flaw to crash VNC viewers which are based on the gtk-vnc library.
 (CVE-2017-5885)

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 gtk-vnc packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?09b71d96

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 103020

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1182.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Published: 9/8/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gtk-vnc2, 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: 8/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5884, CVE-2017-5885