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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libidn (EulerOS-SA-2019-1851)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128903

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The idna_to_ascii_4i function in lib/idna.c in libidn before 1.33 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via 64 bytes of input.(CVE-2016-6261)

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 libidn package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?45dc977f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128903

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1851.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 9/17/2019

Updated: 4/25/2024

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-2016-6261

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:libidn, 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: 9/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6261