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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : irssi (EulerOS-SA-2021-1803)

low Nessus Plugin ID 149111

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - The buf.pl script before 2.20 in Irssi before 0.8.20 uses weak permissions for the scrollbuffer dump file created between upgrades, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from private chat conversations by reading the file.(CVE-2016-7553)

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 irssi package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?35b23e2d

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 149111

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1803.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 4/30/2021

Updated: 1/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:irssi, 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: 4/30/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7553