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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.0 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2018-1237)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117546

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A buffer overrun flaw was found in the IMAP handler of libcurl. By tricking an unsuspecting user into connecting to a malicious IMAP server, an attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially cause information disclosure or crash the application.(CVE-2017-1000257)

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 curl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?08eb57a9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117546

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1237.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 9/18/2018

Updated: 8/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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 Score Source: CVE-2017-1000257

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:curl, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.0

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: 7/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000257