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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : lynx (EulerOS-SA-2020-2137)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140904

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - lynx: It was found that Lynx doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with '?', and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host.(CVE-2016-9179)

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 lynx package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a61390c5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140904

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2137.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/19/2024

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:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9179

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:lynx, 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-2016-9179