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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-2178)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141325

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the libxml2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 8e7c20a1 (20910-GITv2.9.10-103-g8e7c20a1).(CVE-2020-24977)

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 libxml2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?946d74c7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141325

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2178.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 10/9/2020

Updated: 2/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24977

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-libxml2, 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: 10/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24977