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EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : expat (EulerOS-SA-2022-1659)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 160647

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

 - Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES. (CVE-2022-23852)

 - Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function. (CVE-2022-23990)

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 expat packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6f33f11

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 160647

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-1659.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 5/6/2022

Updated: 10/30/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:expat, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-23990