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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : golang (EulerOS-SA-2021-1980)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151040

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method.(CVE-2021-27918)

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 golang package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ccb86306

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151040

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1980.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 6/28/2021

Updated: 12/12/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:golang, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:golang-src, 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: 6/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27918

IAVB: 2021-B-0040-S