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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : git (EulerOS-SA-2019-1917)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 128840

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.(CVE-2017-15298)

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 git package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c5dbeaa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 128840

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1917.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 9/16/2019

Updated: 4/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15298

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-git, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:git

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15298