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EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2019-1381)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124884

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the emacs package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A command injection flaw within the Emacs 'enriched mode' handling has been discovered. By tricking an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted file using Emacs, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Emacs user.(CVE-2017-14482)

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 emacs package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b41494b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124884

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1381.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2019

Updated: 5/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.1.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:emacs-filesystem

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: 5/7/2019

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14482