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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : gnome-autoar (EulerOS-SA-2021-1873)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149559

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations.(CVE-2021-28650)

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 gnome-autoar package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9124b327

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149559

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1873.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 5/18/2021

Updated: 1/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2021-28650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnome-autoar, 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: 5/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28650