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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : screen (EulerOS-SA-2019-1059)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122386

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The MScrollV function in ansi.c in GNU screen 4.3.1 and earlier does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.(CVE-2015-6806)

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 screen package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5a55650d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122386

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1059.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 2/22/2019

Updated: 6/18/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-6806

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:screen, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6806