EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : pcre2 (EulerOS-SA-2019-1983)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 129177

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the pcre2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.(CVE-2017-8786)

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 pcre2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?15413ab8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 129177

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1983.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2019

Updated: 4/23/2024

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-2017-8786

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:pcre2, 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-2017-8786