EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2161)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 130870

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the irssi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- When using an incomplete variable argument, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.(CVE-2018-5207)

- When the channel topic is set without specifying a sender, Irssi before 1.0.6 may dereference a NULL pointer.(CVE-2018-5206)

- When using incomplete escape codes, Irssi before 1.0.6 may access data beyond the end of the string.(CVE-2018-5205)

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 irssi packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?247383ea

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 130870

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2161.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/12/2019

Updated: 4/12/2024

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-2018-5206

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:irssi, 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: 10/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5205, CVE-2018-5206, CVE-2018-5207