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EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : python2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1902)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140005

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the python2 packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.(CVE-2019-20907)

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 python2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab033cd3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140005

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1902.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 2/19/2021

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-2019-20907

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: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-unversioned-command, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.6.0

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: 8/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20907

IAVA: 2020-A-0340-S