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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2019-1608)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125560

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - pax_decode_header in sparse.c in GNU Tar before 1.32 had a NULL pointer dereference when parsing certain archives that have malformed extended headers.(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?80951ca3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125560

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1608.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 5/30/2019

Updated: 5/17/2024

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: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.1.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:tar

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: 5/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9923