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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : python (EulerOS-SA-2017-1186)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103024

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The Python standard library HTTP client modules (such as httplib or urllib) did not perform verification of TLS/SSL certificates when connecting to HTTPS servers.
 A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to hijack connections and eavesdrop or modify transferred data. (CVE-2014-9365)

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 python package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?49d06480

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103024

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1186.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Published: 9/8/2017

Updated: 4/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:tkinter, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python, 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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9365

BID: 71639