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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : perl (EulerOS-SA-2019-1158)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123844

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - It was found that the Archive::Tar module did not properly sanitize symbolic links when extracting tar archives. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing, could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the Perl interpreter.i1/4^CVE-2018-12015i1/4%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 perl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9b3ea3f4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123844

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1158.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 4/9/2019

Updated: 6/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12015

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-macros, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl

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: 4/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12015