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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : gdb (EulerOS-SA-2020-2121)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140888

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The demangle_template function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698.(CVE-2018-20657)

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 gdb package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?77d7158e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140888

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2121.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20657

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gdb, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gdb-gdbserver, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20657