EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : tboot (EulerOS-SA-2021-1452)

high Nessus Plugin ID 147611

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.(CVE-2017-16837)

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 tboot package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3de0486

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 147611

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1452.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 3/10/2021

Updated: 1/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16837

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:tboot, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.6

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-2017-16837