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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : lynx (EulerOS-SA-2020-1410)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135539

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images,but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed Lynx starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays web pages.Security Fix(es):Lynx before 2.8.9dev.16 is vulnerable to a use after free in the HTML parser resulting in memory disclosure, because HTML_put_string() can append a chunk onto itself.(CVE-2017-1000211)

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 lynx package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f86d6dfa

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135539

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1410.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 4/15/2020

Updated: 3/18/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

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-2017-1000211

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:lynx, 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: 4/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000211