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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2022-1580)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 160155
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned (CVE-2021-4115)
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 polkit packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 160155
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-1580.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 4/25/2022
Updated: 10/31/2023
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Temporal Score: 1.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4115
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-docs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, 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: 4/25/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-4115