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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.4 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123710

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - An allocation of memory without limits, that could result in the stack clashing with another memory region, was discovered in systemd-journald when a program with long command line arguments calls syslog.
 A local attacker may use this flaw to crash systemd-journald or escalate privileges.i1/4^CVE-2018-16864i1/4%0

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 systemd package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9fcf3004

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123710

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1242.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 4/4/2019

Updated: 6/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16864

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-sysv, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.4, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-python, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libgudev1-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-networkd

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16864