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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libxkbcommon (EulerOS-SA-2019-2696)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132363

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap in xkbcomp/keycodes.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file.(CVE-2018-15858)

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 libxkbcommon package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3490e0a7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132363

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2696.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/23/2019

Updated: 4/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15858

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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:libxkbcommon, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libxkbcommon-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libxkbcommon-x11, 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: 12/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15858