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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : libexif (EulerOS-SA-2020-1860)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139963

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - In libexif, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege in the media content provider with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation. Product:
 AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID:
 A-112537774(CVE-2019-9278)

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 libexif package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fb01c81

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139963

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1860.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 2/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9278

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libexif, 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-2019-9278