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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ntp (EulerOS-SA-2020-1314)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134805

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The monlist feature in ntp_request.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.7p26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via forged (1) REQ_MON_GETLIST or (2) REQ_MON_GETLIST_1 requests, as exploited in the wild in December 2013.(CVE-2013-5211)

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 ntp package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3885e27d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134805

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1314.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 3/23/2020

Updated: 3/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-5211

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:sntp, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ntpdate, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ntp, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5211

BID: 64692