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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : telnet (EulerOS-SA-2020-2065)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140832

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer overflow involving the netclear and nextitem functions.(CVE-2020-10188)

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 telnet package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5f91234

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140832

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2065.nasl

Version: 1.6

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10188

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:telnet-server, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:telnet

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-2020-10188