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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libnl (EulerOS-SA-2019-1853)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128905

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in the libnl library. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application compiled with libnl to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running such an application.
 (CVE-2017-0553)

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 libnl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b4a7df6f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128905

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1853.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 9/17/2019

Updated: 4/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-0553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnl-devel, 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-2017-0553