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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2538)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 131812

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the libX11 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.(CVE-2018-14600)

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 libX11 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa450e59

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 131812

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2538.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/9/2019

Updated: 4/5/2024

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-2018-14600

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:libx11, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libx11-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libx11-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: 12/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14600