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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : linuxptp (EulerOS-SA-2021-2596)

high Nessus Plugin ID 154390

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in the ptp4l program of the linuxptp package. A missing length check when forwarding a PTP message between ports allows a remote attacker to cause an information leak, crash, or potentially remote code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. This flaw affects linuxptp versions before 3.1.1, before 2.0.1, before 1.9.3, before 1.8.1, before 1.7.1, before 1.6.1 and before 1.5.1. (CVE-2021-3570)

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 linuxptp packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?28d6fa8e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 154390

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2596.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/25/2021

Updated: 10/25/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:linuxptp, 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: 10/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3570