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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : screen (EulerOS-SA-2021-2068)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 151226

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - encoding.c in GNU Screen through 4.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.(CVE-2021-26937)

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 screen package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc7ec07f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 151226

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2068.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2021

Updated: 12/11/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-26937

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:screen, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-26937