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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : pidgin (EulerOS-SA-2020-2062)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140829

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client.
 (CVE-2016-1000030)

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 pidgin package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?622a278b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140829

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2062.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1000030

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:libpurple, 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: 9/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1000030