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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2021-1940)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150229

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Load value injection in some Intel(R) Processors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access.(CVE-2020-0551)

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 binutils package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f4dda82

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150229

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1940.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 6/3/2021

Updated: 12/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-0551

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:binutils

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-0551