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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : c-ares (EulerOS-SA-2022-1989)

low Nessus Plugin ID 162865

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A possible use-after-free and double-free in c-ares lib version 1.16.0 if ares_destroy() is called prior to ares_getaddrinfo() completing. This flaw possibly allows an attacker to crash the service that uses c-ares lib. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to this service availability. (CVE-2020-14354)

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 c-ares packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2fa8355b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 162865

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-1989.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/8/2022

Updated: 10/18/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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-2020-14354

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:c-ares, 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: 7/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14354