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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.2 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2018-1276)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117430

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the
 _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for compilation. An attacker able to provide specially crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the application parsing it.(CVE-2018-10754)

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 ncurses package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?95821896

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117430

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1276.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 9/12/2018

Updated: 8/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10754

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10754