EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2020-1301)

high Nessus Plugin ID 134793

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by sending specially crafted dbus messages.(CVE-2020-1712)

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 systemd package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a0afeb7b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 134793

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1301.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 3/23/2020

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1712

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:systemd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-pam, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-udev, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-udev-compat, 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: 3/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1712