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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2019-1966)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 129123

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free in po_gram_parse in po-gram-gen.y, as demonstrated by lt-msgfmt.(CVE-2018-18751)

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 gettext package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b240c812

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 129123

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1966.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 9/23/2019

Updated: 4/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gettext, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gettext-common-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gettext-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gettext-libs, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18751