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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libcacard (EulerOS-SA-2021-1314)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146752

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new function in card_7816.c in libcacard before 2.5.3 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via vectors related to allocating a new APDU object.(CVE-2017-6414)

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 libcacard package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0a640df4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146752

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1314.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/22/2021

Updated: 1/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6414

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libcacard, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6414