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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : mgetty (EulerOS-SA-2020-2140)
high Nessus Plugin ID 140907
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.Description
According to the versions of the mgetty package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the 'faxq-helper activate ' command.(CVE-2018-16741)
- An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow for command injection if untrusted input can reach it, because popen is used.(CVE-2018-16744)
- An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow a buffer overflow if long untrusted input can reach it.(CVE-2018-16745)
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 mgetty packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 140907
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2140.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 9/28/2020
Updated: 2/19/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16741
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16745
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:mgetty, 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