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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : e2fsprogs (EulerOS-SA-2020-2214)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141668

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the e2fsprogs packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A code execution vulnerability exists in the directory rehashing functionality of E2fsprogs e2fsck 1.45.4. A specially crafted ext4 directory can cause an out-of-bounds write on the stack, resulting in code execution. An attacker can corrupt a partition to trigger this vulnerability.(CVE-2019-5188)

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 e2fsprogs package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?97c84488

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141668

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2214.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 10/21/2020

Updated: 2/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5188

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:e2fsprogs-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5188