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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libexif (EulerOS-SA-2017-1277)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104330

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - libexif through 0.6.21 is vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an ExifMnote entry which can cause denial-of-service or possibly information disclosure.(CVE-2017-7544)

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 libexif package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?01365d89

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104330

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1277.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Published: 11/2/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libexif, 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: 11/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7544