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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libidn (EulerOS-SA-2019-2608)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132143

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

 - idn in GNU libidn before 1.33 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by reading a zero byte as input, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.(CVE-2015-8948)

 - idn in libidn before 1.33 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by reading a zero byte as input, which triggers an out-of-bounds read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8948.(CVE-2016-6262)

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 libidn packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b786382b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132143

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2608.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/18/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6262

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libidn, 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: 12/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262