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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnuplot (EulerOS-SA-2021-1194)

high Nessus Plugin ID 146190

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - gnuplot 5.5 is affected by double free when executing print_set_output. This may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution.(CVE-2020-25559)

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 gnuplot package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7f4179c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 146190

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1194.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/4/2021

Updated: 1/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:emacs-gnuplot, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnuplot, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnuplot-common, 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: 2/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25559