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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2019-1269)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 123737

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.i1/4^CVE-2018-16842i1/4%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 curl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7f11c81

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 123737

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1269.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 4/4/2019

Updated: 6/5/2024

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-2018-16842

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:2.5.3, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libcurl

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: 4/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16842