EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : file (EulerOS-SA-2021-1187)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146110

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes.(CVE-2014-9620)

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 file package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?24f56629

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146110

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1187.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/4/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9620

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:file, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:file-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-magic

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: 2/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9620

BID: 71715