EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : openssl (EulerOS-SA-2021-1376)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 147480

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the openssl packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- A null pointer dereference flaw was found in openssl. A remote attacker, able to control the arguments of the GENERAL_NAME_cmp function, could cause the application, compiled with openssl to crash resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.(CVE-2020-1971)

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 openssl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2e01358e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 147480

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1376.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 3/10/2021

Updated: 1/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssl-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1971