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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libwmf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2537)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131811

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The wmf_malloc function in api.c in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted wmf file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.(CVE-2016-9011)

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 libwmf package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b90bf87c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131811

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2537.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/9/2019

Updated: 4/5/2024

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-2016-9011

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:libwmf, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libwmf-lite, 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: 12/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9011