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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2240)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130702

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.(CVE-2016-9888)

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 libgsf package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f5f92fc9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130702

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2240.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/8/2019

Updated: 4/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9888

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libgsf, 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: 10/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9888