EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : icu (EulerOS-SA-2019-2248)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130710

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- The collator implementation in i18n/ucol.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 through SVN revision 293126, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, does not initialize memory for a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted character sequence.(CVE-2014-7940)

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 icu package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f03760f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130710

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2248.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/8/2019

Updated: 4/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7940

Vulnerability Information

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7940

BID: 72288