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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : cpio (EulerOS-SA-2020-1841)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 139944

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The cpio_safer_name_suffix function in util.c in cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted cpio file.(CVE-2016-2037)

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 cpio package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?24790482

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 139944

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1841.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 2/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2037

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:cpio, 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: 8/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2037