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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2021-2543)

low Nessus Plugin ID 153710

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the tar package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A flaw was found in the src/list.c of tar 1.33 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker who can submit a crafted input file to tar to cause uncontrolled consumption of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-20193)

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 tar packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d47991d7

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 153710

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2543.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 9/27/2021

Updated: 10/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20193

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20193