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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2020-1779)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137998

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - In Libarchive 3.4.0, archive_wstring_append_from_mbs in archive_string.c has an out-of-bounds read because of an incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call. For example, bsdtar crashes via a crafted archive.(CVE-2019-19221)

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 libarchive package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6f732611

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137998

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1779.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 3/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2019-19221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.6.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libarchive

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19221