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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1780)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137999

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program.(CVE-2018-13420)

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 gperftools package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9a396bef

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137999

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1780.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 3/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13420

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13420