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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2019-1600)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125527

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - tar: null-pointer dereference in pax_decode_header in sparse.c.(CVE-2019-9923)

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 tar package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d6bb3cda

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125527

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1600.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 5/29/2019

Updated: 5/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9923

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:tar, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9923