EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : sendmail (EulerOS-SA-2019-2440)

low Nessus Plugin ID 131594

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- The Sendmail program is a very widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).MTAs send mail from one machine to another. Sendmail is not a client program, which you use to read your email. Sendmail is a behind-the-scenes program which actually moves your email over networks or the Internet to where you want it to go.If you ever need to reconfigure Sendmail, you will also need to have the sendmail-cf package installed. If you need documentation on Sendmail, you can install the sendmail-doc package.Security Fix(es):The sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FD_CLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program.(CVE-2014-3956)

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 sendmail package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 131594

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2440.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 12/4/2019

Updated: 4/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3956

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sendmail, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sendmail-cf, 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: 12/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3956

BID: 67791

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